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>This sounds a lot like a dictatorship, and is this what a free society does? Rediculous, nobody is forcing you to use Google or Facebook.
by hueving 9y ago
>This sounds a lot like a dictatorship, and is this what a free society does?
Rediculous, nobody is forcing you to use Google or Facebook.
- vacri 9y agoIt's extremely difficult for a regular user to use the web without bouncing into something provided by one of those two groups.
- honestoHeminway 9y agoEverything is forcing you to use Google and Facebook. The market, the public who voted with there feet. You recive invitations to classes via facebook. There is no freedom of choice in a monopoly where opting out equals social death.
- ajdlinux 9y agoNobody's forcing in the sense of directly threatening you if you don't use Google or Facebook, that is true. But: (a) particularly with regards to social networking, the social pressure to use walled-garden sites like Facebook can be very, very strong (b) if you're a Normal Person(tm), it can be hard to know what else to do other than use the same services that everyone else uses and that are being actively marketed to you. Sure, at the individual level, using Google and Facebook services (as I myself do) is still a voluntary, consensual transaction, but there may well be societal-level effects that look fairly close to those of traditional monopolies.