"FB is a private company. "
Fakebook is just as much a private company as was Evergreen International, the infamous CIA front aviation company that reportedly moved tons of cocaine, heroin, and weapons with impunity for decades.
The Alphabet Agencies like CIA, NSA, NGA, etc., use covert funding mechanisms, as well as publicly acknowledged arrangements to create control mechanisms over ostensibly private companies, and the number of examples of such corruption is beyond my present knowledge. Evergreen International, BCCI, Dyncorp, Halliburton, Rand, Bechtel... the list is interminable, and includes various enemedia such as CNN, the NYT, WaPo, and more.
Granting such power to pretense to a mantle of privacy to USG controlled entities enables government to blatantly undertake acts the Constitution specifically does not grant it authority to do, such as censorship, surveillance, and other depredations on it's citizens. While that may not be the worst horror fascist and corrupt police states undertake, it's one we shouldn't fail to opppose.
I wouldn't go that far. Being on the bed with government and being a front is 2 different things. The problem is that the government hijacked into a private company and both parties had the incentive to go along with it. There is nothing that can fix FB. I mean you could come up with some regulations but that's just covering a wound with shards still deep in the skin which would actually make things worse on the long run.
It's the government that has to go along with most of its "regulation".
If you talk any of these things on FB, then you are deeding the beast. Each DAU and each minute you spend on FB is statistics on FB that they can use to claim more revenue from ads. That's the primary message of this article.
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