I think the issue by now has shifted from whether Facebook is a sleazy profit-maximizing company to what, if anything, regulatory institutions like the FTC are worth.

It's time we turned our attention to them and evaluated to which extent they are willing and able to protect consumers and penalize corporations beyond the scope of PR and wrist-slapping.

We are talking five months, until Facebook IPOs, and the people with vested interests in the company cash in. That's the deadline to make a change.