> 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 t

> 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.