The year 2020 is providing all the Big Questions we can handle. How do we stop a pandemic? Climate change driven fires the size of a continent? Reforming the police to stop racial violence? Fighting bots and trolls that threaten democracy?
Being pseudonymous is key, but it's also the valuable part.
That does not seem to be they key on Facebook.
What I'm certain will never happen even though I think it would be great would be to ban any sort of emotional appeal whatsoever in advertising. It's just manipulative.
This makes the argument that the need to convey product information is now fully accomplished by search engines, and advertising only adds harm / manipulation.
Except for - businesses with users should operate through subscription revenue, rather than 3rd party ad revenue.
It's hard enough for the existing companies. (And yes, I think they're genuinely trying. Or at least I think Twitter is.)
More like bad land management.
From my understanding large fires in Australia probably are climate change given that they seem perennial, but I don't actually know enough to say there.
The U.S. was practically begging for huge forest fires though. Thus my comment.