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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by threeseed on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:51AM (#19673566)
Can we please stop with the hyperbole ?

Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.

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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by cjslep on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:54AM (#19673596)
Don't confuse legality with morality.
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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by threeseed on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:00AM (#19673657)
And people should only go to prison when they commit a crime.

The rule of law does not centre around who is nice or not.

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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by cjslep on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:23AM (#19674421)
That's exactly what OP is saying: since they're not going to prison because the law lets them continue, it won't stop.
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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by fargo on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:55AM (#19673609)
Why is this downvoted?
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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by nihonde on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:59AM (#19673647)
It’s a false conclusion. The OP is making a moral/ethical statement, and says that prison time is the only way to motivate the wrongdoers to conform. That’s different than asserting that a crime under current laws has taken place.
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