Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone But Facebook
The social network has the right to air its views on tech regulation — but the public would be wise to ask questions.
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Facebook Inc. has mastered an array of corporate aptitudes — including its use of euphemism and obfuscation. So when its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, writes an op-ed asking governments to impose some new regulation on his company, a little skepticism is in order. Make that a lot of skepticism.
Zuckerberg’s proposals, published in the Washington Post on Saturday, cover four topics: “harmful content,” elections, privacy and data portability. Each suggestion would create its own particular problems if adopted as government policy, but on one point they have much in common: They’d be good for Facebook’s business.