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1) why are you defending Facebook? 2) Facebook demands and aggressively enforces that your profile represents you and has your real name and other credentials

1) why are you defending Facebook? 2) Facebook demands and aggressively enforces that your profile represents you and has your real name and other credentials associated with your identity. If your pseudonym gets reported it will definitely get banned. 3) > With requiring payment comes the ability to trace where the money came from. Yes that's true for literally every transaction on the internet when done with a credit card. Not sure why that's a problem. > And that should be the right of everyone. Facebook is a company selling a product. You do not and definitely should not have any "rights" on their private platform. Just like you do not and should not have the right to force a local business to trade with you if they do not want to.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> 1) why are you defending Facebook? Because once such laws are enacted they surely will NOT only apply to FB but to all other social networks as well. Classic "pandora's box". > 2) Facebook demands and aggressively enforces that your profile represents you and has your real name and other credentials associated with your identity. If your pseudonym gets reported it will definitely get banned. How does FB doing a bad thing currently justify demanding the government to even one-up them and make it legally mandatory to do that bad thing? - I was aware of them doing this, and if that were the subject of the discussion I would have in fact demanded that they're legally forced to stop doing it. > Yes that's true for literally every transaction on the internet when done with a credit card. Not sure why that's a problem. Did you have to use your credit card to write this post? To post on any other forum for the past few decades? Would you be happy to give me your credit card data in real life before I start listening to anything you say there? > Facebook is a company selling a product. You do not and definitely should not have any "rights" on their private platform. Just like you do not and should not have the right to force a local business to trade with you if they do not want to. FB has taken possession of a now essentially public space of which the participation therein is a central component of having a social life. Try finding a party or any other kind of event to attend without FB access. If you take possession of a part of the commons along with that possession comes the duty to provide proper access to the citizens which are reliant upon it. E.g. if you own a piece of land below which there is an aquifer, the government will force you to provide access to the water so the public can drink. There is no reason why this should be any different in cyberspace.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago

> 1) why are you defending Facebook? Because once such laws are enacted they surely will NOT only apply to FB but to all other social networks as well. Classic "pandora's box". > 2) Facebook demands and aggressively enforces that your profile represents you and has your real name and other credentials associated with your identity. If your pseudonym gets reported it will definitely get banned. How does FB doing a bad thing currently justify demanding the government to even one-up them and make it legally mandatory to do that bad thing? - I was aware of them doing this, and if that were the subject of the discussion I would have in fact demanded that they're legally forced to stop doing it. > Yes that's true for literally every transaction on the internet when done with a credit card. Not sure why that's a problem. Did you have to use your credit card to write this post? To post on any other forum for the past few decades? Would you be happy to give me your credit card data in real life before I start listening to anything you say there? > Facebook is a company selling a product. You do not and definitely should not have any "rights" on their private platform. Just like you do not and should not have the right to force a local business to trade with you if they do not want to. FB has taken possession of a now essentially public space of which the participation therein is a central component of having a social life. Try finding a party or any other kind of event to attend without FB access. If you take possession of a part of the commons along with that possession comes the duty to provide proper access to the citizens which are reliant upon it. E.g. if you own a piece of land below which there is an aquifer, the government will force you to provide access to the water so the public can drink. There is no reason why this should be any different in cyberspace.