I'm not a fan of the overregulation of industries like aviation, but consumer software has gone too far in the other direction and is long overdue for an adjustment.
[0] As in: Every rule was included because someone (nearly) died because of it not being there before.
The realm problem is the inevitable regulatory capture that occurs in every market with even an ounce of complexity.
Given the number of high profile breaches we see every month, I definitely think we're due for some consequences.
We deserve it. Though of course others deserve it more.
Does it ... kill people? Does it enforce bad policies like the healthcare industry did for the past couple of decades, causing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, which are the top causes of death?
Yeah, regulation there definitely helped /s
Facebook asked users to upload nude photos. what if those get leaked and users commit suicide because of it? Would you (partially) blame facebook for their death?
> Does it enforce bad policies like the healthcare industry did for the past couple of decades, causing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, which are the top causes of death?
Genuine question but what policies are the reasons for the epidemic of the three death causes you just mentioned?
I missed that one. By now even lay people should know that's a recipe for disaster.
No, because doing nude pictures of yourself and then distributing them, no matter where, is just stupid. Parents should educate their kids to know better, or seek counseling if that mistake was made.
You're also talking of a hypothetical situation. When planes crash, people die, guaranteed. And yearly there are more than 100 plane crashes.
> "Genuine question but what policies are the reasons for the epidemic of the three death causes you just mentioned?"
The recommendation for a diet high in sugar, high in wheat and other grains, high in vegetable oils / polyunsaturated fats (e.g. Omega-6), low in saturated fat, low in dietary cholesterol, low in salt.
Children were fed in schools, diets were set in hospitals, foods where preferred in supermarkets according to these guidelines. That's not a debate I want to get into though.
I'm grateful I didn't have to live through this as a teenager, it's a shark pool.
So how long do we keep pretending that allowing this to go on is a viable way forward?
BTW, how do you think anti-vaccination, healthy at any size, and minor attracted people ideas became popular? I specify those only because they are particularly heinous, but if you want official policy, just look at literally any election, though the 2016 US presidential election and the brexit referendum are the standouts in terms of memes.
I haven't seen any response yet. Does Facebook kill people, yes or no, it's a simple answer.
> "wasting peoples' time and/or money at scale is just as bad"
What?
> "how do you think anti-vaccination, healthy at any size, and minor attracted people ideas became popular?"
In that regard all Facebook does is giving people the tools to exercise their freedom of speech, possibly with an algorithm for that feed whose effects they couldn't predict, because it was built to maximize profits, not sanity ... and that will never be illegal ;-)
I understand some of the arguments that Facebook encouraged fake news, however speaking as somebody that was born in communism, I can tell you that fake news isn't new, it happened before WW I, it happened before WW II, it happened at the east of the Iron Curtain (at least) during the Cold War, and it happened just as well afterwards.
In my country distributing news via Facebook isn't even that popular, yet fake news is flourishing ... on TV. People are always looking for a scapegoat, for an easy answer, for an easy fix. It's only natural, but it doesn't make it right.
No, I don't think Facebook is to blame for fake news, even if it might have contributed. Facebook can't be responsible for the poor education that people are given.
