The GP asked if Facebook database, accounting, etc are complicit. Yes. You're asking if capital flows between 2 unrelated entities sharing ownership matter? No

The GP asked if Facebook database, accounting, etc are complicit. Yes. You're asking if capital flows between 2 unrelated entities sharing ownership matter? No. You're asking if diffuse responsibility via elected representation matters? Yes, even if you didn't vote for the representative, it does because they act on your behalf. Obviously, one should focus on what one can change directly where possible. There's no dichotomy--disgusting cowardice can be pragmatic. After all, FB has to pay someone to run its databases and to close its books and therefore someone is going to get paid. But it doesn't have to be you. You have a choice. An increasingly interlinked system makes one increasingly responsible, not less. Unless you want to throw up your hands and to declare utter powerlessness. I can't live that way.