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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by jseliger on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:28AM (#19765705)
facebook is the latest scapegoat of society

Correct: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo....

The way to punish Facebook is for users to stop using it; that most people don't, tells us a lot. Follow the data and behavior, not the speech and statements.

Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by SeanAppleby on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:43AM (#19765773)
It could be a nash equilibrium, where everyone's best interest is for everyone to switch to a new platform, but for each individual person leaving Facebook costs them more (since if not enough people leave there's not a big enough pool of people looking for a new social network to have another valuable social network) than the small amount of damage it inflicts on the company.

If Facebook died we would all land on another platform, it's just very hard to move people over iteratively. The government could push that transition along, if it wished.

Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by rock_hard on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:37PM (#19766337)
Any new platform would have the same issues