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0 pointsmoonchrome3y ago0 comments

That's ridiculous - for a lot of people I know number one use case for Facebook is keeping in touch with people that move away - very often out of country.

Rebuilding social network would take a long time, having it country specific would be pointlessly limiting.

Chunking up internet between countries would be going down further into isolationism for GB since they aren't even a part of EU anymore.

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simmerup3y ago

It's not ridiculous. I'd say if US and UK policy on privacy continues to diverge it may become necessary or even obvious.

It only seems ridiculous because it hasn't happened yet.

Other solutions can be found to keeping in contact with friends that move away without having to give undue power to some international tech behemoth. And while building a new Facebook wouldn't be easy, I wouldn't say it would be necessarily hard either. It'll just take time. Hell, the competition may even be good for Facebook on the end.

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