Re: If there were no Facebook?
No industry has ever honestly self-regulated.. not tobacco, not gambling, not the church and definitely not social media. Facebook will not monitor itself and inconvenience itself beyond a bare token effort.
Supposedly the free market and competition are the solution to all mankinds woes,( which may be why capitalists suppress them every chance they get ),
So, if you shatter facebooks empire, into a thousand competing rats in a sack, put a cap on their individual sizes, and set them against each other.
Facebook doesnt give a shit about what its users post - BUT if its rivals are putting up offensive material, and mini-facebook can rat them in to the regulator and do harm to the competition and gain some reward themselves... they will be watching each other like hawks..
Small outfits will put more effort into watching each other for compliance than any monolith will spend on self monitoring.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
