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Do you believe in the rule of law, or do you expect everyone to take the "moral high ground" (however you want to define that) all the time just because they sh
by curiousgeorgio 8y ago
Do you believe in the rule of law, or do you expect everyone to take the "moral high ground" (however you want to define that) all the time just because they should? Pick one or the other, but not both. Hint: one of the two is a fair and practical approach; the other is a pipe dream built from excessive virtue signaling.
Should Facebook be 100% held responsible to the law? Of course.
Should some laws be updated/created to help fill gaps where we might need more privacy? Possibly.
Should Facebook be held to some nebulous moral standard of what some people want but don't have the will power or public support to codify into law? Absolutely not.
Too powerful? If people actually cared more about privacy, then either the law would get changed (which is happening in some places), or Facebook would lose market share and be forced to make changes from market forces alone. No need for governments to arbitrarily pick winners and losers.
- jimbo999 8y ago>Do you believe in the rule of law Facebook Ireland Ltd. Does. > Pick one or the other why not both?
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Facebook would lose market share and be forced to make changes from market forces alone "Market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services is not efficient" [1]. They are known failure modes that free markets suffer, and must be defended, from. Laissez-faire doesn't work. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
- indemnity 8y agoFound the Facebook employee.