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Re:The Facebook Papers: dozens of stories based on whistlebl... by Cthulhu_ on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:23AM (#28988121)
I doubt FB would want a government telling them what to do. I mean thanks to the GDPR on the one end and Apple on the other, they really had to tone down the gathering of their primary source of income - user data. They would not have done those voluntarily. And I'm convinced they have teams working full time on how to circumvent these rules.
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Re:The Facebook Papers: dozens of stories based on whistlebl... by Consultant32452 on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:49AM (#28988431)
Censor "wrong-think" without blame and create a moat that smaller players will have a hard time crossing. Win-win.
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Re:The Facebook Papers: dozens of stories based on whistlebl... by gruez on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:32AM (#28988242)
>I doubt FB would want a government telling them what to do. I mean thanks to the GDPR on the one end and Apple on the other, they really had to tone down the gathering of their primary source of income - user data.

you're assuming the regulations would revolve around privacy/tracking. I think politicians/the public care far less about that, and more about censorship/"destroying democracy" or whatever.

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