Funny how they're suddenly concerned about privacy when it involves something like this. I'm glad the FTC actually reacted, but frankly it still wasn't enough. Considering the researchers asked people to *voluntarily* show them the content, there's absolutely no privacy issue at all, so it's not just that Facebook was using the consent decree to block something that *technically* should be blocked based on the decree, but it was totally unrelated. It amazes me they can't see that these knee-jerk reactions they keep making just continue to dig themselves deeper and display to the public exactly why they need to be regulated and broken up.
Funny how they're suddenly concerned about privacy when it involves something like this. I'm glad the FTC actually reacted, but frankly it still wasn't enough. Considering the researchers asked people to *voluntarily* show them the content, there's absolutely no privacy issue at all, so it's not just that Facebook was using the consent decree to block something that *technically* should be blocked based on the decree, but it was totally unrelated. It amazes me they can't see that these knee-jerk reactions they keep making just continue to dig themselves deeper and display to the public exactly why they need to be regulated and broken up.