Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks

Re:Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks by michaelt on Sunday July 10, 2016 @06:31PM (#12067580)

My level of optimism depends on whether I think FB can make enough profit to sustain their current valuation based on their current advertising alone, or whether they'll need to broaden their horizons in terms of monetising the data they hold.

It's fairly easy to imagine monetisation strategies that could be pretty negative in the long term.

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Re:Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks by 03pxkexce5 on Sunday July 10, 2016 @06:39PM (#12067612)

If I try to imagine the worst things Facebook could do, I don't get scared, because they don't seem that lucrative.

Blackmail me based on private conversations?

Resell my photo uploads to shutterstock?

Charge the intelligence agencies $1k per user for a backdoor to my encrypted FB chat messages?

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Re:Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks by eggie on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:38AM (#12069908)

They could influence elections, shift social policy to help certain people, and generally engineer the social world in their own image. It will be very hard to tell if this is happening.

They could become the whole internet. In many places they already are. This is a very sad future for someone who sees the internet as a tool of human liberation and direct connection.

I don't care so much about them selling our information. It's worthless even to me. These other things are much more subtle and valuable.

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Re:Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks by emp_zealoth on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:17PM (#12067741)

They can make users miserable by messing too much with them or trying to squeeze more money out of them

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