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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by chosenbreed37 on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:45AM (#19170090)
> Regulation is not as black and white as you are painting. Plenty of regulations do good things, because people can't be trusted to act with a social conscience when profit is their motive.

Indeed. I think the argument ventured is that it is burdensome to the point that only the big established players can bear

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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by BurningFrog on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:14AM (#19172047)
> Plenty of regulations do good things, because people can't be trusted to act with a social conscience when profit is their motive.

This is one of those sentences that sound logical, until you start thinking about it.

The fact that people sometimes do bad things in no way proves that regulations do good things. If anything, it's an indication that regulations might also be bad, since they are made by people.

Often the same people who are being regulated, believe it or not...

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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by ionised on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:24AM (#19172116)
The alternative is no regulation, which I can't see ending up as anything other than a chaotic profit and power-seeking free-for all that does no favours for the average citizen that isn't part of the capitalist class.
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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by BurningFrog on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:53AM (#19172421)
Who do you think has the most influence on the regulations?

The powerful or the powerless?

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