I really wonder if the NYT does this piece to bargain a deal with facebook of some sort. Which kind of company calls for regulation on another company? The nerv

I really wonder if the NYT does this piece to bargain a deal with facebook of some sort. Which kind of company calls for regulation on another company? The nerve! However, I do sympathize on how much facebook is getting from its network effected position. It looks impossible to dethrone. Same for google. I think the change has to come from how users deal with their own data. If you as a consumer had unlimited access to your data, you could potentially resell it to someone else, forcing facebook and the likes to compete on price. The key here is that the data has to be owned by the consumer, not by facebook itself.