Break up Facebook

Another "small" government conservative looking to Big Brother government to fix your problem because the free market isn't working in your favor.

Many times it's not the government OR the big mean corporation that's the real problem.

"Big government is great when we're in charge!"

But THAT's the problem.....one day you are, the next day you aren't.
Personally, I'd prefer NO government...and let human nature take it's "natural" course.
The strong will survive. That'd be me ;)

I'm not a social darwinist. I believe in community. I believe in compassion. I just don't think it should be mandated by government.
 
They aren't a monopoly

Depends....

They don't have to be technically a perfect Monopoly to fall under the guidelines of the government's antitrust regulations.

For instance recently Amazon was clandestinely buying up salespace on eBay.
It was strictly an illegal move being done through a dummy corporation. Customers who visited that sale space were redirected to Amazon. That's exactly the kind of thing of the attorney general could use to indicate to a federal judge that Amazon is a de facto Monopoly even if it's not a perfect Monopoly.

Jo

There are multiple social media platforms out there, not just Facebook and Twitter. They just happen to be the most popular. An oligopoly might be a better description than a monopoly.
Who care what one calls them?

COLLUSION: ‘Left Wing Media Activist Email Leak Shows How They Deplatform Political Rivals.’

So is this conspiracy to deprive people of civil rights under the civil rights laws?
Or is it a conspiracy in restraint of trade — since the people targeted are often journalistic/pundit competitors — under the antitrust laws?

Why not both?
 
They aren't a monopoly

Depends....

They don't have to be technically a perfect Monopoly to fall under the guidelines of the government's antitrust regulations.

For instance recently Amazon was clandestinely buying up salespace on eBay.
It was strictly an illegal move being done through a dummy corporation. Customers who visited that sale space were redirected to Amazon. That's exactly the kind of thing of the attorney general could use to indicate to a federal judge that Amazon is a de facto Monopoly even if it's not a perfect Monopoly.

Jo

There are multiple social media platforms out there, not just Facebook and Twitter. They just happen to be the most popular. An oligopoly might be a better description than a monopoly.
Who care what one calls them?

COLLUSION: ‘Left Wing Media Activist Email Leak Shows How They Deplatform Political Rivals.’

So is this conspiracy to deprive people of civil rights under the civil rights laws?
Or is it a conspiracy in restraint of trade — since the people targeted are often journalistic/pundit competitors — under the antitrust laws?

Why not both?

What we really need is some kind of federal agency charged with making sure media companies are acting "in the public interest".
 
They aren't a monopoly

Depends....

They don't have to be technically a perfect Monopoly to fall under the guidelines of the government's antitrust regulations.

For instance recently Amazon was clandestinely buying up salespace on eBay.
It was strictly an illegal move being done through a dummy corporation. Customers who visited that sale space were redirected to Amazon. That's exactly the kind of thing of the attorney general could use to indicate to a federal judge that Amazon is a de facto Monopoly even if it's not a perfect Monopoly.

Jo

There are multiple social media platforms out there, not just Facebook and Twitter. They just happen to be the most popular. An oligopoly might be a better description than a monopoly.
Who care what one calls them?

COLLUSION: ‘Left Wing Media Activist Email Leak Shows How They Deplatform Political Rivals.’

So is this conspiracy to deprive people of civil rights under the civil rights laws?
Or is it a conspiracy in restraint of trade — since the people targeted are often journalistic/pundit competitors — under the antitrust laws?

Why not both?

What we really need is some kind of federal agency charged with making sure media companies are acting "in the public interest".
No. We just need a court determine if this is a conspiracy to deprive people of civil rights under the civil rights laws and/or a conspiracy in restraint of trade — since the people targeted are often journalistic/pundit competitors — under the antitrust laws.
 
They aren't a monopoly

Depends....

They don't have to be technically a perfect Monopoly to fall under the guidelines of the government's antitrust regulations.

For instance recently Amazon was clandestinely buying up salespace on eBay.
It was strictly an illegal move being done through a dummy corporation. Customers who visited that sale space were redirected to Amazon. That's exactly the kind of thing of the attorney general could use to indicate to a federal judge that Amazon is a de facto Monopoly even if it's not a perfect Monopoly.

Jo

There are multiple social media platforms out there, not just Facebook and Twitter. They just happen to be the most popular. An oligopoly might be a better description than a monopoly.
Who care what one calls them?

COLLUSION: ‘Left Wing Media Activist Email Leak Shows How They Deplatform Political Rivals.’

So is this conspiracy to deprive people of civil rights under the civil rights laws?
Or is it a conspiracy in restraint of trade — since the people targeted are often journalistic/pundit competitors — under the antitrust laws?

Why not both?

What we really need is some kind of federal agency charged with making sure media companies are acting "in the public interest".
No. We just need a court determine if this is a conspiracy to deprive people of civil rights under the civil rights laws and/or a conspiracy in restraint of trade — since the people targeted are often journalistic/pundit competitors — under the antitrust laws.

For all the liberals on the board - that's right, all three of you - I hope you appreciate the irony in this. Your flagship mission statements are being used to justify squelching freedom of speech. Go team!
 
Tech overlords Google and Facebook have used monopoly to rob journalism of its revenue.

Over the past decade, the news business has endured a bloodbath, with tens of thousands of journalists losing their jobs amid mass layoffs.

The irony is, more people than ever are consuming news. There’s never been a greater need for factual reporting, from the White House down to the local school board.

Why the disconnect? Look no further than a new study by the News Media Alliance, which found that in 2018, Google made $4.7 billion off of news content — almost as much as every news organization in America combined made from digital ads last year. Yet Google paid a grand total of zero for the privilege. News industry revenue, meanwhile, has plunged.​

Nice work if you can finagle it.
 
Tech overlords Google and Facebook have used monopoly to rob journalism of its revenue.

Over the past decade, the news business has endured a bloodbath, with tens of thousands of journalists losing their jobs amid mass layoffs.

The irony is, more people than ever are consuming news. There’s never been a greater need for factual reporting, from the White House down to the local school board.

Why the disconnect? Look no further than a new study by the News Media Alliance, which found that in 2018, Google made $4.7 billion off of news content — almost as much as every news organization in America combined made from digital ads last year. Yet Google paid a grand total of zero for the privilege. News industry revenue, meanwhile, has plunged.​

Nice work if you can finagle it.

Socialists gonna socialize. I wonder what leftists like PoliticalChic think about this?
 

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