Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?

Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by eanzenberg on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:35PM (#13869626)

It's the inconvenience of having multiple accounts and logins with multiple services. Sure it's not as inconvenient as having multiple phone line accounts so AT&T customers can talk to Bell Atlantic customers but at the end of the day, your data is providing revenue to these companies and the companies continue to silo themselves.

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by scholia on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:10PM (#13869944)

Wouldn't that be easily solved if all the other services offered a "log in with Facebook" feature and routed messages to other people who also logged in with Facebook?

I assume there's a gaping flaw in this idea that I can't quite see at the moment ;-)

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by vertex-four on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:08PM (#13870504)

Part of the gaping flaw is that Facebook will very quickly disable your API account so you can't offer login with Facebook, if you're competing with them. :)

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