Your suggestion is fighting fascism with fascism, and it reads like maybe you don’t realise that?
“BigTech needs to be fought like cancer”. When did we all agree to this?
“BigTech needs to be fought like cancer”. When did we all agree to this?
FB is a detriment to society, but this is primarily due to capitalism's flaws, which entices profit above all, and even punishes those who stray from this dogma.
(A board must remove a CEO not on mandate, shareholders will sue if they do not, etc...).
Everything has flaws, needs to be tweaked, no engine runs without maintenance. We handle this aspect of capitalism with regulation, patching an inherent flaw where required.
Banning a social network would only see it pop up elsewhere, perhaps in a place like China or Russia, with all of the censorship and state controlled manipulation this implies. Think Facebook is bad? Imagine all of Facebook's issues, with no spam control, no privacy legislation, plus members of the state on the board, and state sensors filtering posts, and injecting state approved data.
Destroying Facebook is ... nuts.
Instead, create a level playing field for all via regulation, tweaking and fixing the for-profit motivation which leads to bad societal outcomes. (And, keep positive for-profit motivations, edited to clarify I am not anti-profit.)
Fix, repair, improve, do not destroy.
There's no "level playing field" while Facebook exists.
You might be under the sunk cost fallacy ..?
Yet imagine Facebook is "destroyed" tomorrow, literally shut down. Now, where do all those people go to get their fix?
You suggest two alternatives that could grow quickly, and in regions I am concerned about. I don't think it's a sunk cost fallacy, when my premise is "This will exist no matter what" and "Let's make sure any such platform can't work detrimentally".
Then manipulation is still rather easy? Best to legislate, mandate, ensure that market forces make this type of preying on society, economic model a loss, not a win.
I think what is in your mind is some ruling body telling you what to think.
This isn't that. This is using an elected body, to effectively patch society to fix issues that exist therein. The Government is you. If it isn't, get a new Governmental system, or fix it, because something is very wrong.
The alternative to Facebook isn’t a set of smaller competing alternatives, it’s the next biggest competitor hoovering up almost all of the displaced users.
Better the monster you can regulate than the monster you can’t.