Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?

Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by clubm8 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:40PM (#13870240)

* Facebook is not "unregulated" - the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission both regulate it. The latter has taken multiple interventions, and will probably continue to do so in the future.

* Facebook is not physically addictive - there's a huge difference between addictions like gambling and drug addictions.

* Facebook is not the most important media company in the world - Facebook does not produce news, only disseminate it.

* Facebook is not controlled by one person - it is a publicly traded company.

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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by devopsproject on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:48PM (#13870869)

* The SEC isn't going to regulate content, only financials. FTC fought facebook over privacy settings

* Experts are beginning to disagree with this http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

* Facebook workers recently admitted to filtering content they didn't agree with (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/09/fo...)

* Zuckerburg controls facebook: http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/zuckerberg-facebook-control/

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