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True, but all of these small-business/relatable analogies break down because fb is a monopoly. It would be unreasonable if a polite disagreement with one person
by Swenrekcah 8y ago
True, but all of these small-business/relatable analogies break down because fb is a monopoly. It would be unreasonable if a polite disagreement with one person excluded you from 90% of bars in your state/country.
- edmundsauto 8y agoIt's more like getting kicked out of the most popular bar, where 90% of your friends go. Sure, there are other bars, but you want to go to the one with your friends.
- faceplanted 8y agoI'd say it's more like getting kicked out of a library for being a republican and therefore not being allowed to ever enter any library in the country again.
- edmundsauto 8y agoHow is facebook preventing you from using a different social network (another library)?
- faceplanted 8y agoThe reason I used the library analogy is that at least where I live, library's are only run by the state. And literally the whole point of this conversation is that Facebook has a monopoly on locally targeted online marketing, they're not stopping you from advertising on Myspace, what's stopping you from advertising on Myspace is that it's pointless. Sure, technically Facebook doesn't have a 100% perfect, totally clean monopoly with literally no competitors, but that doesn't mean that them owning a significant majority of the targeted local advertising market isn't a monopoly problem and shouldn't therefor be legislated against.