NDM 31

Facebook should be 'regulated like cigarette industry', says tech CEO

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/24/facebook-regulated-cigarette-industry-salesforce-marc-benioff-social-media

- The Guardian

Facebook should be regulated like a cigarette company, because of the addictive and harmful properties of social media, according to Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff. Technology has addictive qualities just like cigarettes do. Benioff, who founded B2B cloud computing company Salesforce in 1999, suggested that regulation of some form was inevitable for the technology industry.


I agree that it was inevitable for social media to require further regulation than it currently presents. I find it interesting how it is compared to cigarettes and that there are similarities in the sense that they are both addictive and there are different kind of forces trying to get you to do certain things.