> I don’t know why those principals are so hard for people to swallow. The top comment from a post yesterday explains it very well: https://news.ycombinator.co

> I don’t know why those principals are so hard for people to swallow. The top comment from a post yesterday explains it very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165707 > Because Facebook and Google have been guided by the principal: if it's not illegal, it's ethical. The problem with that philosophy is that if you've normalized any questionable behavior on the basis that it is legal, the natural response will be stronger legislation. The "unstated rules" around privacy and people's personal information have been broken. Any ire at forthcoming regulation should be directed at the bad actors, like Facebook and Google.