zlacker

Oh yeah, far more easy than the government taking regulatory action is coordinating a massive consumer choice boycott.

Sometimes, it is so abundantly clear to me that this site is full of former teenage libertarians who grew up and still haven't shed all of those ideals.

>>whimsi+(OP)
You are on a site called hacker news. “Former teenage libertarian” is practically in the name.

>>whimsi+(OP)
If all of the latest Facebook news can get my family to start questioning their usage/dependency on Facebook—I think it's fairly possible.

There have been a number of really great projects coming through HN and other sites recently that are aimed at solving some problem that people on Facebook have: photo sharing, event planning, etc.

Discoverability is really the only problem left.