There is actually a pure free market solution to this problem. Microsoft should sell their stake in Facebook and publicly announce they are distancing themselv

There is actually a pure free market solution to this problem. Microsoft should sell their stake in Facebook and publicly announce they are distancing themselves from FB. The dominos will just start falling automatically, one by one. For sure, it will start some serious soul searching among the companies whose primary business is data exploitation. But of course, this will not happen, because Microsoft desperately needs Facebook to be strong so that its AI team can actually challenge Google's dominance in AI (Tensorflow). https://internetofbusiness.com/microsoft-and-facebook-team-up-on-open-source-ai/ https://internetofbusiness.com/microsoft-and-facebook-team-u... So we keep hearing these weird platitudes by folks who probably are never going to be affected in any big way by this so called "cannibalization of the fabric of this country".