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Punish them for what, exactly? Showing ads?
by fogzen 9y ago
Punish them for what, exactly? Showing ads?
- unethical_ban 9y agoThat is both legally and morally up for debate. As the article describes, popular opinion is swaying against the kind of cavalier use of personal data for their benefit alone. Legally, perhaps less so, but it is at least possible at this point that they violated FTC agreements they had in place.
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- fogzen 9y agoSo I used Facebook for years. Even if my personal information was inadvertently accessed by advertisers, nobody was damaged by it. I just don't understand the outrage.
- xkjkls 9y agoI don't think punish is the right word. Even if Facebook had been more clear about its privacy policies from the get-go, I think you could make a solid argument that having Instagram or WhatsApp as separate companies would be better for the creative destruction we want out of capitalist competition.
- fogzen 9y ago> Instagram or WhatsApp as separate companies would be better for the creative destruction we want out of capitalist competition. The rise of Instagram and WhatsApp IS creative destruction! Creative destruction occurs with or without breaking up Facebook... I'll be honest I have no idea what you're trying to say.
- xkjkls 9y agoIs it creative destruction to have a single company control so much of the time people spend on the internet? That sort of entrenched market power is going to lead to less innovation in general, because they don't need to worry nearly as much about people flocking to new apps or advertisers who would then have cheaper ways to reach consumers.
- fogzen 9y agoI don’t think creative destruction means what you think it means... They don’t control anybody’s time. I don’t use Facebook. Nobody is forced to use Facebook.