Let’s talk about all the regulation in the automobile industry and traffic laws and taxpayer funded public infrastructure and on and on this metaphor is not as smart as they think it is!
https://twitter.com/jeffhorwitz/status/1438522433758236673
There are literally rules about the placement of headlights and taillights and the colors they are allowed to be. Does IG want the government dictating the app UI/UX because it certainly sound like that to me if we are to take this metaphor seriously (which we really should not)?
In the galaxy brain of Menlo Park, FB/IG/WA is an automobile that you don’t need a license to operate, don’t need insurance for, don’t need to keep inspected, and if it crashes causing death, injury or destruction of property this is kept secret unless leaked to a journalist.
I mean if you have to be old enough to operate a motor vehicle then why don’t you need to be old enough to operate social media? Whether tobacco, alcohol, or automobiles, all the metaphors to posit the problem of Facebook are completely absurd. Facebook is a big problem of power.
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