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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by pascalxus on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:29PM (#13868925)
And yet, you have something called: personal choice. People should be responsible for their own actions. Most of the concerns listed in the article, are things any other company or entity could do: "creating shadow profiles", 'crawling the web', etc.

If you don't want FB to have your pictures then don't go there. The parent article is over-reaching it's concern.

And it's not exactly accurate that it's controlled by 1 person. Ultimately FB can't do anything we don't want it to do. If FB does something we don't like, we're just one tab lick away from putting them out of business.

The last thing we need is more useless regulations that will stifle the already stiffled and slowing of innovation.

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by r3bl on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:38PM (#13869025)
> If you don't want FB to have your pictures then don't go there.

There's a trivial error in your example: I can upload the photo of you to Facebook, and there's no mechanism you can use to take it down.

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by AlexandrB on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:51PM (#13869178)
> If you don't want FB to have your pictures then don't go there.

Basically impossible if you have friends that use Facebook - which most people have unless you run only in very specific circles.

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:30PM (#13868948)
> If you don't want FB to have your pictures then don't go there.

That's all well and good until you get to US Customs and they demand to see your Facebook before they let you back in the country.

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