Break it up into what? All the problems of Facebook are inherent to Facebook as a product, "breaking up" Facebook doesn't really fix anything.
the concerns are not about meddling in elections but meddling by people not approved by existing parties and their supporters.
they want to control the message and approve the messengers. the internet as a whole is a threat to that but not organized enough to where other groups can communicate with like thinking people easily and quickly. tools like facebook give people the ability to organize beyond their local geographical area.
They have way too much power, have to take some sort of steps.
The second pane was titled “Microsoft after the breakup”, and it was a picture of two big, mean, nasty octopi.
An "open and documented protocol" is what led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal; most people are not informed enough to properly manage permissions and even if they were, the personal data of friends would necessarily be available via this protocol. Posting something on this new platform-ized Facebook would be akin to sharing with every app each of your friends has authorized.
Off the top of my head:
- Facebook content
- Facebook advertising
- Facebook messenger
- whatever other apps Facebook owns
- probably a whole bunch of others that will require thinking about it more than four seconds.
Those are all inextricable from the Facebook platform. If there is no Facebook platform there is no place for ads or content, if there is no Facebook user database there is no way to route messages. I suppose for messages you could clone the database and give it to each company but that seems strictly worse since now you have two companies with your Facebook PII.
> Instagram... whatever other apps Facebook owns
Sure, but like I said, that that doesn't really change anything. Can you please elaborate on how the consumer would benefit from this?
> probably a whole bunch of others that will require thinking about it more than four seconds.
No need for sarcastic quips.