We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself

Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by jabretti on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:58PM (#15737671)

So I could no longer be Facebook friends with my friends on different continents?

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by ericflo on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:02PM (#15737687)

No, they would be forced to allow friendships to span company-wall boundaries.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by jabretti on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:04PM (#15737693)

So we split Facebook into multiple companies which must of necessity coordinate all their activities with each other?

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by ericflo on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:07PM (#15737707)

Are e-mail providers "multiple companies which must of necessity coordinate all their activities with each other"? Sure, but when you put it that way it sounds nefarious. The underlying idea here, if I understand it correctly, is to force Facebook into defining protocols for what they do - something closer to e-mail than the current Facebook model.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by uoaei on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:36AM (#15738231)

Sounds like a little creative reimagining of PubSub (hell, even RSS) would make this more than possible.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by CaptainZapp on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:48AM (#15739060)

Works pretty well for the global phone system, doesn't it?

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