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Back then facebook did not exist. Hence, good times. Also, government regulations always come because people start complaining they got scammed or damaged in some way(usually due to their own ignorance), so government comes in and makes things worse for everyone. I am not saying there should be no legal framework for internet, but today it is just way too much and it stagnates progress, freedom of speech and overall usability of the whole thing itself.

>>gethly+(OP)
> Back then facebook did not exist. ... so government comes in and makes things worse for everyone.

I really do not agree at all. The power consolidation that Facebook is a good example of is just not a government regulation thing at all. The opposite in fact. Government regulation being hands-off allowed the internet to become "5 giant websites that share screenshots from the other 4". And that they're largely uncountable.

The internet as it is today, with very little governance over the large websites that exist today, is terrible for the people who are online today. I stand by that. Removing regulation won't help, as the bad actors are already pretty much unregulated already.

>>Sidebu+S5
We do not have to agree. My point was that internet should be as little regulated as possible, as it transcends borders and governments. You see it in another way, and that is fine. I have no issue with that. Merely difference of opinion.

Cheers.

>>gethly+99
I don't really understand the argument that Facebook should have been allowed to consolidate its power by acquiring WhatsApp and Instagram ... because the apps are multinational.

Maybe those acquisitions should have been allowed, and maybe not. But the reasoning there is non-sequitur. The one thing simply does not follow from the other.