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And yet, they benefit the most from lobying, taxes and profits, and dictate and have dictated the market for decades. They drain entire countries, they extract all their resources, most of their water, they pollute and are responsible for the extinction of entire ecosystems and quite a few human deaths. Imagine, they've done all of that without knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing right now.

What has Facebook done? Copied all of Snapchat and displayed some russian ads.

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Well for one, Facebook, through crass negligence and a failure to own up to the duties that go along with their position in regulating the flow of information between people, played a key role in the election of an administration which supports the draining of countries, the extraction of resources, and the extinction of ecosystems...and if the recent stories about a lifetime cap on medicaid benefits are true, quite a few human deaths! (Obviously Facebook isn't solely or even mostly responsible, Monsanto is worse, yadda yadda yadda)

So did Fox News.

Let’s break up Fox News, NYT and all the other outlets that enables Trump

Thank you captain planet, most people are aware those corporations are scum and do not approve of their behavior.

I'm not really sure what to tell you - something closely approximating omniscience will be in the hands of a few organizations ran by a few people in 20 years. Hopefully society wisens up. This will be an interesting century. I would personally pick Monsanto if I were you.

Then Jesus will come.

Everybody has their version of the apocalypse.

No one cares which companies are the worst, they are all bad in their own way, but if you claim that the number one priority is to break up Facebook because they could harm people in the future with their omniscience, then don't get mad when someone calls you out and tells you it's been happening for decades, even without all of that techno-knowledge you are so afraid of.

But they know where you are and what you do! yes, so what, they can harm you without knowing, they have been. They've been telling people what to think since they invented talking.

Superintelligence is coming and guess what? Governments are gonna own it, full stop. Not a company, not two. Governments, with guns. And for the looks of it is gonna be China. The NSA has been fighting against the odds this whole time but who knows, maybe they still have a chance. Facebook is just a pawn, the tip of the wedge, and you've fallen for the distraction.

Or do you really think breaking up facebook will completely halt development of AI?

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