The problem is Facebook is too large to moderate. The truth of the matter is what while regulation may help, the real solution is to eliminate the conditions in which Facebook can exist at the scale it currently does. Which is a harder proposition.
https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1416938335898152961
Breaking Facebook into baby Facebooks, perhaps Facebook for photos, Facebook for shopping, Facebook for groups. Or Facebook by regions. This is just a temporary measure until they congeal back into something basically identical. The problem is the conditions in which FB became FB
These conversations about what to do about Facebook feel stale because Facebook has no answers, it knows it cannot operate safely at scale... And it's critics?...
Most of its critics don't have the spine to say the truth: Facebook cannot be fixed without an enormous downsizing of its operation and restructuring of our economic guardrails specifically to make sure nothing like it can ever exist again.
There is no capitalist solution to FB.
There is no capitalist solution to FB.
Facebook has tentacles in so name nooks of the American economy & even a break up would almost def cause enormous economic impact to the rest of the economy. Its artificially depressed ad prices drive so much economic activity, & its role as a vector of data has no easy fallback
Solving the problem of Facebook would mean acknowledging the entire neoliberal experiment of the last 40+ years is a failure & fixing is more than a problem of a single co., it's about reforming the entire American economic system that allowed FB to become this in the first place
Critics are too trapped by the boxes Facebook has put around the conversation, along with similar boxes years of shitty economic advisers on both sides of the aisle have built for years around these types of conversations. I don't even think of Facebook as a big tech problem...
There is no technological solution Facebook can develop that will solve the ecosystem that created, encouraged and continues to shape it. Facebook is arguably barely a tech company anymore, by its own design its an economic, communication and social layer...
Facebook isn't a big tech problem.
Facebook is an *America* problem.
Fixing Facebook, actually fixing it and not putting a bandaid on, or kicking the can down the road, is intrinsically linked with fixing our failing national Great Experiment.
Facebook is an *America* problem.
Fixing Facebook, actually fixing it and not putting a bandaid on, or kicking the can down the road, is intrinsically linked with fixing our failing national Great Experiment.
To be clear here: I'm not saying don't break up Facebook. I'm saying that's day 1 of a very long road we have to be willing to walk as an entire nation. I'm willing and we should get on it right away. But if we want it to stick, it's going to mean a lot more work than just that.
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