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> It is optional. No amount of whining will change that. Would you be still saying this if your power, water, phone, and internet lines were permanently cut o
by quadrifoliate 4y ago
> It is optional. No amount of whining will change that.
Would you be still saying this if your power, water, phone, and internet lines were permanently cut off because some random person hacked your account(s) for them?
Those are private companies, and there are certainly people who manage to live in the woods without any of the utilities mentioned, so they are technically "optional" as well. We have schooled ourselves to think of social networks as optional, but in 2022 I'd argue that they are just as non-optional as the telephone; and perhaps even more so in certain ways. (e.g. What was the last time your local government called you over the telephone? But they are probably replying to Facebook comments.)
- superkuh 4y agoComparing Facebook access to a utility is pretty wild. It's more like how watching the $sportsball game is "not optional" if you want to hang out with a certain friends group.
- quadrifoliate 4y agoPeople aren't usually banned from sportsball games (either in-person or televised) via an automated system. If they were, perhaps you'd see more of an uproar. Facebook is fundamentally new and different precisely because its scale is equivalent to something as large as a utility; but it gets that scale based on automated processes. Once the automated processes begin fucking up people's lives with no recourse, we should start bringing in regulations.