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A phone company doesn’t suggest other phone numbers or people you should be calling, or try and optimize for your engagement on making the most phone calls. A t
by iamleppert 7y ago
A phone company doesn’t suggest other phone numbers or people you should be calling, or try and optimize for your engagement on making the most phone calls. A telco company also traditionally does not directly market to users, or sell ads based on the content of their data (voice calls and text messages). So by this test, no, Facebook is nothing like a telco.
- chillacy 7y agoThat seems to be the point in the article, it's not like a telco. Another thread here points out that it's not like a newspaper either. In reality it's an entirely new category and applying regulations from the 20th century isn't going to work as well as coming up with entirely new ones to address entirely new problems.