U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources

Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources by echelon on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:20PM (#25284945)

> The government is not a scalpel, it's a sledgehammer. It can easily say that the same company can't make both third party app stores and operating systems, or both video search/recommendations and video hosting. It's a clear enough line, it isn't mired in technical details, you swing the sledgehammer at the fault line between the two markets and break them apart. Then you go home.

This works.

Let's do it.

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Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources by rmrfstar on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:22AM (#25286449)

It sounds nice, Glass-Steagall for tech. Worked in finance for a long time.

But I think that technology is going to make it easy to work around structural separation. Facebook derives its power from building dossiers on billions of people. They are intelligent motivated people. I don't think that pushing different activities into different orgs is going to do anything to limit that power.

Their surveillance business model is what needs to go. Will society collapse if we shift from behavioral to contextual advertising? I doubt it.

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