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It’s always going to be easier to ban every new invention. But public policy shouldn’t be based on what’s easiest, it should be based on what’s best for societ
by scarab92 2y ago
It’s always going to be easier to ban every new invention.
But public policy shouldn’t be based on what’s easiest, it should be based on what’s best for society, and that requires considering the trade offs.
Right now there’s no evidence that anything Facebook are doing causes real world harm, so the trade off favours allowing it.
If that changes, then policy can change at the same time.
- zelphirkalt 2y ago> But public policy shouldn’t be based on what’s easiest, it should be based on what’s best for society, and that requires considering the trade offs. Surely that is not simply grabbing people's personal data and using it for new purposes without consent. > Right now there’s no evidence that anything Facebook are doing causes real world harm, so the trade off favours allowing it. If I had been living under a rock, I might have claimed this. However, FB is complicit in genocide, so naah, not so sure about that claim. I would rather we have a very close eye on them.