*Usually* this sort of related-rates question is not a problem for govts because the scales are mis-matched. Lots of companies can be wormed before it overall system impacts emerge. Not so here; FB's reach is larger than many govts.
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...so FB is clinging to rules-of-the-road that don't predict or protect against an actor that combines malign neglect with cortisol predation with world-beating scale. Simply being wrong wouldn't matter so much if it was smaller. But it's not, so it does.
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They also don't seem to be able to be patriotic enough to understand that melting down the home-turf democracy is more important than competitive dynamics. The plaintive "please regulate us!" cry is as pathetic as it is cynical. Yes, society should. But not in the way they want
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You know when someone finishes an oft-repeated half-sentence?; e.g. "information wants to be free", w/o the attendant "information also wants to be expensive"? That's FB's mission of "bringing world closer together". It's missing at least half: https://investor.fb.com/resources/default.aspx …
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They could also just, you know, decide to make slightly less money by not accepting political ads at all. But hey, those Teslas aren't going to pay for themselves.
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I'm afraid the logic that governs ~all tech these days is derived from the wisdom of an analyst's latest scribblings, house prices in Palo Alto being what they are.
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