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This is horrible, how do I know a random chinese business won't sell it for a good markup to a russian agency or Egypt who've used it to prosecute non religious

• smallnamespace 8y ago
  You don't. The simple consequence of globalization and economic integration is that what everyone does affects everyone else, and the networks of flow in information, energy, and physical commodities are so dense that it becomes very difficult to attribute cause and effect (and therefore moral responsibility) to any one actor. If it wasn't Facebook, it would've been someone else. That's not to absolve Facebook of its behavior, just noting that there are strong incentives in place that encourage interoperability and therefore efficiency that resulted in its actions, and these incentives affect every organization worldwide. The only way to prevent this is to build barriers to control the flow and pay the very high price of loss in efficiency. China is way ahead of things in that sense.