> they can do whatever they want with the information they have What if they decide to publish online your computed profile? Maybe they know you better than yo

> they can do whatever they want with the information they have What if they decide to publish online your computed profile? Maybe they know you better than yourself. > as long as the don't use coercion Isn't influence or suggestion a kind of coercion? Why do you think they spend so much resources on profiling everyone? > That said, I do believe that there's a practical problem, but it's us that must try to solve it, we must educate people My country used to have over 6000 people killed on roads out of about 60M people. The state tried to "educate" people about not driving while drunk, not driving fast, using seat belts, etc. But in the end, what actually worked was more policemen on the roads. You say freedom is the lack of coercion but you fail to realize that you are coerced into being part of FB, and your only opt-out is drastic measures like using a blocker. FB probably has more intelligence capabilities about mere people than any past or present intelligence agency of any country ever had. That raises a lot of questions, the first of them being to make sure that they don't use it against people.