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Re:Off-Facebook Activity by joshmarlow on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:39PM (#20751095)
As near as I can tell, I think most people:

1) are not particularly well-informed about issues around Facebook 2) aren't willing to go through the effort to be well-informed

So the real problem we need to face as a society - Facebook is only one instance of it - is how to get more people to take an interest in the important issues around them? How do we make people into competent citizens?

Re:Off-Facebook Activity by Nextgrid on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:21PM (#20751637)
Traditionally when we have a situation where the masses don’t have the means, equipment or knowledge to make sure for themselves, the law & regulation steps in. This is why you can buy food at a supermarket and be reasonably certain that it’s not toxic without needing biology & chemistry degrees and an expensive lab to analyse the food.