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The irony is that they are acting exactly like a utility is supposed to, offering their services to anyone, regardless of their politics. > “It’s a tricky issu
by mseebach 9y ago
The irony is that they are acting exactly like a utility is supposed to, offering their services to anyone, regardless of their politics.
> “It’s a tricky issue,” [Wendy Moe, professor of marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business] says, because once the companies decide they’ll do hands-on work for political groups, “it’s hard for them to say we’ll help these groups, but not others.”"
The water utility can't legally refuse service to the Trump campaign, and neither would the Facebook utility.
What you're asking for, is for Facebook to act in way they're specifically only able to act because they're not regulated like a utility.
Or for a quick lesson is public choice theory, consider exactly who would be writing the regulations a regulated Facebook would be regulated under and ponder whether that's going to end well.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoI can also use public records laws to get a great deal of information on what my utilities are up to. That transparency is not present with the tech giants.
- te_chris 9y agoThe water utility doesn't send highly-skilled consultants out to help people poison the water supply.