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Well, when it establishes a dominant position in the market using tactics that are no longer allowed, we do get a right to say that they should be broken up, or
by semiotagonal 7y ago
Well, when it establishes a dominant position in the market using tactics that are no longer allowed, we do get a right to say that they should be broken up, or forced to start from scratch without their user data.
My own two cents is that Facebook should be dismantled to restore competition, then be allowed to do whatever it wants.
- TooSmugToFail 7y agoFacebook should be dismantled because they effectively broke democracy. From the earliest of its beginnings, one of the greatest flaws of democracy was masses being susceptible to manipulation, and Facebook massively amplified this. It has been repeatedly and reliably used for manipulation of voters with unprecedented effectiveness and on an unprecedented scale. Trump and Brexit showed that even the oldest and most mature democracies are not impervious to such manipulation. I was shocked how Facebook's Libra initiative quickly detracted people: all of a sudden, we're all discussing whether they should be allowed to run crypto currency, and nobody is talking about how they broke democracy. Almost as if the whole Libra thing is a giant distraction...