Big companies like this never go away. They just reshape their public image and keep doing what they are doing. The Facebook thing will blow over. He has friends in high places. Right now this is a show for the public. Later its forgotten and Zuckerberg is back doing whatever he wants to do.
Big companies like this have never existed before. It's hard to remember, but 10 years ago there was no "massive Facebook" or anything of the same scale. Amazon, Apple, you name it: NONE of them have been around long enough for a claim that "they never go away" to make any kind of sense.
But big invasive entities have always existed. In france, coal mines almost owned the lifz of their worker : when they shop, where they slept, etc. News were only on a few newspapers or tv channels linked to the same top people, one source of info to tell you what to think, do and to buy.
The government has always collected a lot of infos to.
Before that, the church did. They polished the global personnal data collection but called it confession. They mastered the ad, it was for all people to see on sunday. Very useful for population control and black mail.
So unless people learn to see the red flags and react, the next wolf will it the sheeps like always.
