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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by abecedarius on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:42PM (#25366352)
If you can see the data, you can share the data. Preventing sharing is exactly as possible as DRM, i.e. only doable by outlawing general-purpose computing.

So while I value privacy, I'm not sympathetic to using privacy as an argument to restrict your own access to your Facebook data, for you to decide yourself on how that's shared. If you misuse your view of your friends' data, that's on you and up to your friends to punish/discourage you for.

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by nine_k on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:40AM (#25370566)
Technically you can, but should you?

Your sharing your FB friends data with third parties, could be seen by the friends as impolite or even hostile. It's a matter of trust between friends, not technical ability.

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