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> Facebook is not like the power company, or the water district. It is not an essential utility that people will die without Imagine walmart is the only large
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
> Facebook is not like the power company, or the water district. It is not an essential utility that people will die without
Imagine walmart is the only large store near your house, and they ban you from that store. Walmart is not an essential utility, since you have a convenience store and a gas station in the same town too, and you can also drive 2 hours to another large store if needed.
If all of your social circle is on facebook, it's very inconvenient to ask them to move somewhere else just for you.
- scarface74 4y agoDoes your browser not allow you to type in another web address? So now we want to give the government more power to make things “more convenient” instead of just asking your friends to use another application?
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoSO if your local mommy group uses facebook... are you going to ask all 50 of them to switch to signal/telegram/vk/whatever? Are they going to do this just for you?
- scarface74 4y agoIs this the new version of “think of the children”? No, the government doesn’t need to step in because you can’t be part of the cool kids and they won’t relocate the party to your house.
- jjav 4y ago> Does your browser not allow you to type in another web address? That's not a good-faith response. Of course they can go to a different website, say, ycombinator instead of FB. But if their child's school is only reachable via FB, that won't do much good.
- scarface74 4y agoThen the answer is not to regulate private industry. The answer is for the local government to pass laws saying that all communications must be on public websites.