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> There is no one forcing you to be a consumer of Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon. They aren’t infrastructure companies. I think that's debatable (which is precis
by malvosenior 7y ago
> There is no one forcing you to be a consumer of Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon. They aren’t infrastructure companies.
I think that's debatable (which is precisely what the antitrust investigation is looking into).
Regardless, I'm not forced to stand up for them either. I don't agree with how they are operating and I'm glad they're being looked into.
- scarface74 7y agoYou really don’t think there is any other means to get your word out than to depend on Facebook and Twitter? HN users are always telling musicians that they should make their money from touring and selling CDs. Why couldn’t people get speaking engagements, sell books, create podcasts (no you don’t have to be in the Apple Podcast directory, you can subscribe to a podcast directly from the RSS feed), newsletters, etc. Yes, I do feel the bar has to be a lot higher - as in burning babies at an alter besides cute kittens -for an infrastructure company like an ISP or a domain register to ban you.
- techntoke 7y agoTime to make sure that all those conservative businesses in Indiana can't kick me out of their stores for expressing my free speech and political opinions in their store, otherwise they should be regulated. /sarcasm