[governance] Monetising socialisation

David Conrad drc at virtualized.org
Wed Feb 18 14:33:09 EST 2015


Parminder,

> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/face-how-facebook-drove-us-away-dave-pilcher <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/face-how-facebook-drove-us-away-dave-pilcher>
> 
> It is bad, even if here it is monetising social connect between a business and a 'follower' group that 'it' has created.

I can understand why they abandoned Facebook.  I gave up on Facebook myself a couple of years ago, albeit for different reasons (didn't have the time to deal with their constantly mutating privacy policy and its implications).  Can't say I've missed it.

> Smacks of public street pay-off rackets involving petty businesses that most police forces in developing countries live off.

Except by definition, police forces have the authority of law behind them: you generally don't have a choice whether you obey the police or not (at least if you want to stay out of jail or worse).

If you don't like what Facebook does, instead of trying to spin up a global regulatory regime to try to force your will on a private company, why not simply stop using them?

Regards,
-drc

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