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>"Platform bias" isn't an antitrust concern, and, in fact, the President has no authority to "de-bias" private companies. This is a very common refrain and I w
by charmides 8y ago
>"Platform bias" isn't an antitrust concern, and, in fact, the President has no authority to "de-bias" private companies.
This is a very common refrain and I would agree completely with this if we didn't live in a society where Facebook, Twitter and YouTube dominated the our communication channels. I wish that we had a neutral way (like email) to reach a large audience and that it wasn't owned by three or four private companies.
- tptacek 8y agoIt would seem to be difficult in the extreme to wield antitrust law against Twitter, which is embattled, competes bitterly with Facebook, and holds no monopoly on anything.
- abraae 8y agoTwitter seems to hold somewhat of a monopoly on a certain kind of shouty, instantaneous social interaction.
- Retra 8y agoYou have email, phone, and regular mail? What's not neutral about them?
- lovich 8y agoGoogle is one of these large companies who controls one of the major ways of reaching a wide audience(search). They also control a spam blacklist which controls who you can reach through email, and they've implemented a feature in Android to just blacklist phone numbers as spam in one click when a new number calls you
- Buge 8y ago>they've implemented a feature in Android to just blacklist phone numbers as spam in one click when a new number calls you Are you saying the feature is that you can block phone numbers? Or is there some central list?
- nonbel 8y ago> "Are you saying the feature is that you can block phone numbers? Or is there some central list?" It can't be a central list due to all the spoofing going on. Almost all spam calls are spoofed these days from what I've seen.
- Buge 8y agoIf there's no central list, then I don't see how implementing the ability for users to block numbers is non-neutral. There's no central enforcement or organization, it's just a private thing.
- nonbel 8y agoI don't know, but if they start blocking every random number in your area code it will cause a problem.