I don't think we're talking about a data privacy issue here. Facebook's TOS, old and new, states that its rights to use your data are "subject to your privacy s

I don't think we're talking about a data privacy issue here. Facebook's TOS, old and new, states that its rights to use your data are "subject to your privacy settings". The issue here is copyright, which is not the same thing. Meanwhile, if you're saying that it would be great if we had a regulatory regime that recognized the reality of the Internet -- where anything you publish effectively belongs to the world and cannot thereafter be retracted or centrally controlled -- amen to that! But that's not the world we live in. We live in a world full of lawyers who mail C&D notices to indie filmmakers if they happen to photograph a building or a sign or a person without getting a signed release first; a world where a lot of modern art can't afford to legally exist because it costs too much to clear the rights to all the components of that art. Under those circumstances, I find it hard to blame Facebook for throwing up their hands and demanding a waiver before you publish anything on their platform.