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Privacy regulations have value independent of its effects on competition. Making a Rube Goldberg argument about how it might end up benefiting Facebook ignores
by IBM 9y ago
Privacy regulations have value independent of its effects on competition. Making a Rube Goldberg argument about how it might end up benefiting Facebook ignores that fact.
The solution to market dominance is antitrust enforcement.
- ianai 9y agoI wanted to make this comment but you made it for me. Only breaking at least one tech giant up will ever change the status quo. In FBs case that could be very simple - in theory. They’re only allowed to operate over specific geographic regions, say states in the US and feature (IM separate from profile separate from gaming) In practice, though, they're probably too big and global to be broken up.