It's not reasonable to say "I can do bad things until the law says I can't", because that makes you antisocial. Perhaps you are, or you are arguing in bad faith. In any case I don't feel like explaining to you why you need to be a good person. Nobody reading that is going to learn anything new and you won't either.
I just never understand what the solution is. How is the web less free, just because there is one huge social network that people like to use? Yeah we got a classic monopoly there, that just happens to use the internet for it's business... so legally break it up if you don't like it. I can't ethically blame companies for trying to grow wherever they can. And I especially can't see the connection to the internet as a technology.
It's like saying roads are not free, because there are only 2-3 car brands driving on it. If that's a problem, it's not about the roads.
How is the web less free, just because
there is one huge social network that
people like to use?
It's not directly because of FB.
We are on the verge of a single company -- Google -- assuming de facto sole control of what used to be the "open web" as its last viable competitor, Mozilla, fades away.
This is possible because, generally speaking, nobody cares about the open web. Even most of us in the tech industry no longer care.
That is where Facebook comes in. We no longer care because companies like Apple and Facebook have successfully shifted us into the "app mindset" in which the open web is irrelevant.
I care deeply about the open web, but I'm a minority.
I would love to understand the downvotes on this comment.
