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And yet people choose to use Facebook/Insta. This scary slide towards people feeling that they know what is best for everyone else is extremely un-Democratic.

kd913 5y ago
Maybe because reality has proven that people don't know what they are doing. E.G. The anti-vaccers, anti-climate change supporters that Facebook eagerly monetizes. Maybe we can actually get vaccination numbers up in the EU if these idiots weren't given a soapbox by FB.
- mk81 5y ago
barneygale 5y ago
The "scary slide" is towards megacorps owning our lives, not the EU's very late effort to slow it down.
- bko 5y ago
  A lot easier for an EU citizen to ditch Facebook than it is for them to ditch the EU. I prefer to have autonomy and choose which products and services I use
  - sgift 5y ago
    You are free to use any service which doesn't break the law. If you don't like the law you can try to get the law changed. That's the democratic way. Letting FB get away with breaking the law, cause "people voluntarily use it .." is not.
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chmod775 5y ago
> This scary slide towards people feeling that they know what is best for everyone else is extremely un-Democratic. No it's not. Undemocratic would be a few prohibiting many from harming themselves. Even the majority prohibiting something would still be democratic. Democracy is not the same thing as libertarianism. Wanting others to live healthier lives and saying that aloud has nothing to do with any form of government at all. I don't need to live in a dictatorship to talk about the dangers of alcohol, obesity, or facebook.
- qeternity 5y ago
  > Even the majority prohibiting something would still be democratic. The vast majority of people use the services that a vocal few object to. We have already had a vote (implicitly) and we know where the will of the people lies. But there are people who believe the government should unilaterally overrule this because they believe they know what's best for them. That is absolutely undemocratic. > Wanting others to live healthier lives and saying that aloud has nothing to do with any form of government at all. I don't need to live in a dictatorship to talk about the dangers of alcohol, obesity, or facebook. Which of course is a complete strawman and not at all what I said, or claimed was ocurring.

kd913 5y ago

Maybe because reality has proven that people don't know what they are doing. E.G. The anti-vaccers, anti-climate change supporters that Facebook eagerly monetizes. Maybe we can actually get vaccination numbers up in the EU if these idiots weren't given a soapbox by FB.

mk81 5y ago

barneygale 5y ago

The "scary slide" is towards megacorps owning our lives, not the EU's very late effort to slow it down.

bko 5y ago
A lot easier for an EU citizen to ditch Facebook than it is for them to ditch the EU. I prefer to have autonomy and choose which products and services I use
- sgift 5y ago
  You are free to use any service which doesn't break the law. If you don't like the law you can try to get the law changed. That's the democratic way. Letting FB get away with breaking the law, cause "people voluntarily use it .." is not.

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chmod775 5y ago

> This scary slide towards people feeling that they know what is best for everyone else is extremely un-Democratic. No it's not. Undemocratic would be a few prohibiting many from harming themselves. Even the majority prohibiting something would still be democratic. Democracy is not the same thing as libertarianism. Wanting others to live healthier lives and saying that aloud has nothing to do with any form of government at all. I don't need to live in a dictatorship to talk about the dangers of alcohol, obesity, or facebook.

qeternity 5y ago
> Even the majority prohibiting something would still be democratic. The vast majority of people use the services that a vocal few object to. We have already had a vote (implicitly) and we know where the will of the people lies. But there are people who believe the government should unilaterally overrule this because they believe they know what's best for them. That is absolutely undemocratic. > Wanting others to live healthier lives and saying that aloud has nothing to do with any form of government at all. I don't need to live in a dictatorship to talk about the dangers of alcohol, obesity, or facebook. Which of course is a complete strawman and not at all what I said, or claimed was ocurring.