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This is one of the most important pieces I’ve ever written. The FTC must free the social graph techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/fri…
The ultimate way to coerce Facebook to treat users better is to require it be easy to bring your friendships when you switch social networks 2/ 
Regulations are toothless against Facebook if users have no alternative. The FTC can’t build Its own competitor, but it can pave the road to them. 3/
Phone number portability sets a legal precedent for allowing you to bring your connections to a new network. We need this for Facebook/Instagram. 4/
FTC should demand Fb let us export a privacy-safe hashed file of friends’ contact info that can be cross-checked by other apps so you can find those friends there. 5/
Facebook rightly doesn’t let you mass-download friends’ contact info for spamming, but we deserve something more functional than a list of friends’ names. 6/
Without friend portability, other Facebook regulations leave us trapped with a pig in a fresh coat of lipstick. 7/
Bonus idea: Zuckerberg should pledge not to acquire any more 20M+ user social networks as an alternative to a break up. 8/
Fair capitalism in the age of free software means user choice. Here’s my full report on how the FTC can give it to us techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/fri… 9/
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