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Re:Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it by dalbasal on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:26PM (#16675272)
no. 2 is guaranteed cost plus pricing. Quite a lot of fiascos built on that principle.

Regulation is harder than it seems. The legal system we use... it just doesn't really work that way. It doesn't fail just because of corruption and such. That said, here's one. Whatever they collect, users can elect to have a copy and easily with a 3rd party. At least that way we could watch them watching us.

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Re:Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it by beefield on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:34PM (#16675300)
I am confident that facebook makes much more money on the ads it shows me than what is any reasonable margin on the actual cost of serving me the pages and storing my status updates. So in this case this guaranteed cost plus is much less than what facebook currently does.
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Re:Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it by walterbell on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:33PM (#16675294)
Some form of analytics that can report each downstream access.
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