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> Not to say that I have a solution for it

I do.

Regulators should shutdown or deny fb many of the privileges it currently has; consumers should minimize or avoid Fb altogether. Its doable, I stopped using Fb regularly two years ago and now I only check my page twice or thrice a year. Fb is not in any way essential for daily living.

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> I stopped using Fb regularly two years ago and now I only check my page twice or thrice a year.

This is not "stopped using". This is "using less frequently".

> Regulators should shutdown or deny fb many of the privileges it currently has

What privileges do they have?

>This is not "stopped using". This is "using less frequently".

Not OC, but I deleted my Facebook account about 6 or 7 years ago and I'm still quite happy with it.

My university course communicates 99% over WhatsApp or Signal or Email/Git.

It's certainly doable.

Facebook deserves to be sued into oblivion for all the shady "privacy zuckering" that happened early on.

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