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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by andrepd on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:42PM (#16304472)
Absolutely. When will governments (EU?) step the hell up and regulate this huge part of our lives?
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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by moretai on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:54PM (#16304543)
Why don't you regulate yourselves?
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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by marnett on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:23PM (#16304691)
The article posted above was suggesting that Facebook is more a detriment to society than a plus. Society is typically safeguarded from toxic products through regulation. So, if Facebook is a perfectly engineered attention trap, you or I self-regulating, which plenty of us here do anyway, helps society in no meaningful way.
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