I can write a personal data graph crawler in a weekend. I can’t release it because Facebook army of lawyers. Maybe zuckermort should look into the mirror sometime to find the bad faith actors ruining the internet.

Obviously, that data is not your data. You can pull out your own posts, photos, maybe replies. Because you made that, but al that context isn't yours, so FB won't let you take it out. Heck, it might even be a copyright violation.

The fact that this defends FBs position is just a coincidence...

> Making the friend/family graph portable would allow others to compete with Facebook

It's also the exact feature that allowed Cambridge Analytica to happen ("Push this button to share your address book with this third-party company") - seems like people are vocally against allowing that to happen just as strongly as they are vocally in favour of implementing all the features which allow it to happen, somehow not connecting the two...

Technically the data is already portable. It just requires a motivated developer to create a program to parse the files that Facebook let's you download with all your Facebook information. That's not difficult.