The ironic thing about the Facebook data mess is after they get regulated other advertising companies will need huge legal and compliance teams to deal with the new regulations. The regulations could actually build a nearly insurmountable moat for FB.
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Nearly every regulation only further entrenches established companies and cripples their would-be competitor upstarts. Almost the opposite effect regulators hope they have.
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I'm pretty cool with destroying the prospects of future surveillance-capitalism competitors. Each one just behaves worse in a race to bottom since they already have to overcome market entrenchment.
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Replying to @RichFelker @AustenAllred
Having to fight the abuses of one FB isn't as bad as having to do that plus fight 1000s of get-rich-quick scammers doing MLM adtech and PII mining.
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