I'm against someone deciding that I cannot do something because it can be bad for me.
You don't live in a vacuum or a state with a population of one. If your actions have consequences - and most do, even if it's only through the socialized pooling effect of insurance - then there is a moral argument for society to regulate them.
Personally I'm more of a fan of utilitarian thinking that takes into account second and third order effects. It's not enough to regulate X because X is bad; you need to look at what X is currently displacing, black market effects, underlying demand. But it's just silly to deny the moral legitimacy of regulation in itself - we all live in a society and it's childishly selfish to think you can just do as you please. It's prohibitively expensive to capture all the externalities of our actions, so we regulate instead.
Poor people don't have a direct choice. Fat people don't complain about beeing fat. And opiod addicts can get help easily.
Nothing even remotely similar to just not using Facebook.
I also don't miss events or pictures. Facebook is not everything. Never was. There is this thing called communication which works pretty well when you quit facebook
Don’t play with a ouija board so much because I think you’re possessed by the ghost of Ayn Rand.
If you like Facebook just keep using it. Nobody will mind.
Here’s an example from couple of years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/facebook-pro-k...
I think by blocking these people, Facebook violated the first amendment, and probably even conspired with a foreign totalitarian government.
In US laws however, Facebook is free to do whatever they want with the data stored on the servers they own. Also the blocked people have accepted EULA. So, according to the letter of law, FB probably did nothing wrong.
No, the biggest problem of big companies is when they stifle innovation and competition in order to maintain an unchanging cycle of use and purchase.
The biggest problem of big companies is when they hurt consumers with predatory practices.
With Facebook I fail to see how that's the case. Everybody is perfectly capable of not being hurt by their own accord by just no using it.
If the problem is how it influences politics and government, I think that's even a point against letting the government mess with it, as it is a power that can be easily misused by the party in power.