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Re:Can Germany Fix Facebook? by mschuster91 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @08:06PM (#15627483)
> Companies like Facebook are getting rich off the infrastructure they provide, they are responsibility for the consequences of the technology they put out into the world.

I call this "externalization of costs". Private companies skim off the profit and leave the costs to society - be it in construction with the ÖPP (public-private-partnership) or "lease back" scams, or with social media where the victims of mobbing/nazis and police have to suffer.

Re:Can Germany Fix Facebook? by gaius on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:01AM (#15628941)
I call this "externalization of costs"

I call it converting social capital into financial capital. People had friends, shared experiences, went to events and so on before Facebook somehow inserted itself into all these interactions.

Re:Can Germany Fix Facebook? by krona on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:38AM (#15628904)
You are implying that people who use Facebook are not free agents who can decide for themselves what their impact on society should be.
Re:Can Germany Fix Facebook? by WillReplyfFood on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:52AM (#15629040)
They are not. If the public plaza is private, you have only the option to not participate and be a social outcast or to bow to the allmende-renteers laws.
Re:Can Germany Fix Facebook? by bryansum on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:23AM (#15628880)
Jaron Lanier characterizes these kinds of companies as "Siren Servers": http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/the-vibrant-religious-...