Email to my class about the Facebook et al. scandal

>and such companies need to be highly regulated and are not

Reminds me of “when people say there aught to be a law... there amost always shouldn’t be”.

I hate Facebook, and I think Google is a fairly evil company - but government has shown me nothing in terms of regulatory success for me to say this is a government problem that needs a government solution.

I’m wary of people that seriously think “government can fix this!”.