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It seems broken if the following things are true at once:

1) we agree that it is good for society that Meta (or others) aren’t allowed to violate your privacy

2) those rules are enforced by a megacorp (like Apple) as part of an everything-bagel of rules that they also profit from (some % cut of app revenue)

If (1) is true then privacy rules should be enforced by governments, not by a megacorp everything bagel power grab.

If (2) were true alone but (1) wasn’t true then it would make Apple’s enforcement of those rules even more obviously bad.




Meta has already been forced to offer non-ad access to Facebook. I assume that is tied to a privacy guarantee (or it wouldn't make much sense - ads can be obnoxious but it is the unconsented surveillance that needs to be reigned in).




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