Zuckerberg should resign at this moment. Facebook needs new leadership if it wants to change the way it has been operating.
I even expect to see a few angry post from people that decided to delete their account now, and when they tried to undelete the account after a few weeks they surprisingly discover that all the old information was missing and Facebook can't recover it because it is deleted.
fake quote > If they used Windows instead of Linux, they could have send the account to the Recycler Bin, and recover it now.
The real sizzle comes not from the emotional outrage but the calls for government inquiry and potential regulation, which would do structural damage to all of Silicon Valley. This has been a stunningly bipartisan effort, the left supporting it ostensibly because they like regulating big businesses, and the right supporting it because they (perhaps correctly) see Silicon Valley megacorps as adversaries.
It's not going to happen quickly, but if this awareness gains momentum a much more healthy (federated, preferably open source) social media site could have a higher chance of survival. I think that's worth something.
Nope -- there are political and legal proceedings underway, and those things take time. In a year? Maybe.
> Facebook can't recover it because it is deleted
"Deleted." It's easy for those people to fake up a new account, and remember the lessons they learned the last time around.
Ugh, so we're going to have the front page of HN dominated with the exact same "discussions" for another year?
That was five years ago.