Facebook: In the Spotlight
March 7, 2016
A Facebook executive found that the party-loving Brazilians were not full of fun recently. A Facebook executive was detained without samba music. (See “Facebook Executive Jailed in Brazil.”)
Also interesting was “Facebook Hit With German Antitrust Investigation Over User Terms.” The write up reported:
The German federal competition authority has opened an investigation into Facebook over what it suspects is “an abusive imposition of unfair conditions on users.”
The friction between governments and widely used American software systems and services appears to be increasing.
The only challenge will be figuring how to put the horse back in the barn. The barn burned and apartments and a Chuck E Cheese have been built on the once fallow land.
Facebook was set up in 2004. That works out to more than a decade of development. How often are complexes torn down in a modern digital city? Municipal bureaucracies often react slowly and in often confusing ways.
Stephen E Arnold, March 7, 2016
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