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True as this may be in legal and business terms, facebook is also by its monopoly position a de facto news source and filter and ought to be held accountable fo
by triplesec 10y ago
True as this may be in legal and business terms, facebook is also by its monopoly position a de facto news source and filter and ought to be held accountable for such to public standards of transparency.
- zzleeper 10y agoTrue, which means laws can be passed to enforce this. Same with tobacco antitrust, trains, water, power, etc. Of course the costs might not be really worth it..
- debaserab2 10y agowhat exactly is Facebook a monopoly of?
- MisterBastahrd 10y agoDisseminating news to luddites too lazy to move beyond facebook.
- int_19h 10y agoFor many people, the source of information. Yes, it does not match the nominal definition of a "monopoly", in a sense that those people are free to look for information elsewhere. But they don't, and so whatever narrative FB chooses to feed to them is what they will believe. I guess you could call it a monopoly on attention.