Here's the thing - FaceBook is not the Internet, but unfortunately a lot of people seem to think it is and don't bother to venture out of it's closed garden. It

Here's the thing - FaceBook is not the Internet, but unfortunately a lot of people seem to think it is and don't bother to venture out of it's closed garden. It's the early days of Compuserve and AOL all over again. This article would appear to have been written by someone who clearly falls into that camp. Honestly, if FaceBook went offline tomorrow, would the world stop, or would millions of people suddenly find themselves with hours of extra time to be productive? This is a good chance for the country to ween itself off of FaceBook and venture back out into the world. Hopefully FaceBook holds its ground. It doesn't need the news and we really don't need it for the news, and certainly not for accessing Gov services. Maybe everyone can go back to posting picture of their pets and holidays, but I guess there's no money in that for FaceBook. Either way I'm disgusted with our nanny-state Government involving itself in what should be a contractual dispute. How about making Google and FaceBook pay appropriate taxes on revenue earned from Australian citizens instead of this bs?