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> Facebook is not a country Facebook 2019 revenue was 71 billion or so, which would put it at number 70 worldwide if it were a country. Maybe we should start t

> Facebook is not a country Facebook 2019 revenue was 71 billion or so, which would put it at number 70 worldwide if it were a country. Maybe we should start to treat it like one.

root_axis 6y ago
I don't follow your reasoning. Should we treat every billion dollar company as a country or just websites?
- cambalache 6y ago
  If you are such a juggernaut maybe you cannot hide anymore behind the "we are a private company so we can do whatever we want" defense. At 70 billion revenue your impact in society is huge, you are effectively affecting millions of humans.
  - root_axis 6y ago
    > maybe you cannot hide anymore behind the "we are a private company so we can do whatever we want" defense No such defense exists. Should we treat every billion dollar company as a country?
    - cambalache 6y ago
      > No such defense exists No such defense exists? Have you read this site every time a new wave of social media cancellations happen? After every credit card processing company ban a group of polemical people? "They are a private company they can decide what to do" Well, maybe if you are extracting 70 billion a year from society it is not that simple as "I can decide who to do business with" I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away.
      - root_axis 6y ago
        > Have you read this site every time a new wave of social media cancellations happen? After every credit card processing company ban a group of polemical people? Every company is allowed to do "whatever they want" if you define "whatever they want" as "legally refuse to do business with an individual" > I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away What? Of course they wouldn't, companies are free to do business with whomever they choose as long as they do not discriminate against a protected class. People who post "stop the steal" is not protected, nor is it a class of people, it is a behavior prohibited by the rules of the platform.
      - dragonwriter 6y ago
        > I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away. Even if that was true, which it is not generally in the US, that's not analogous to what is happening. It's more like if Shell, instead of selling gas for money, was a peer-to-peer gas exchange service, and they decided not to let you participate because the traits of the specific formulation of gas you were providing didn't conform to what they wanted in their exchange network.
        cambalache 6y ago
        Yeah, what is the trait of the credit card companies,patreon and the hosting companies? Take care of your back, dont bend that much backwards.
CodeArtisan 6y ago
It also has 2.7 billions active users.

> Facebook is not a country Facebook 2019 revenue was 71 billion or so, which would put it at number 70 worldwide if it were a country. Maybe we should start to treat it like one.

root_axis 6y ago

I don't follow your reasoning. Should we treat every billion dollar company as a country or just websites?

cambalache 6y ago
If you are such a juggernaut maybe you cannot hide anymore behind the "we are a private company so we can do whatever we want" defense. At 70 billion revenue your impact in society is huge, you are effectively affecting millions of humans.
- root_axis 6y ago
  > maybe you cannot hide anymore behind the "we are a private company so we can do whatever we want" defense No such defense exists. Should we treat every billion dollar company as a country?
  - cambalache 6y ago
    > No such defense exists No such defense exists? Have you read this site every time a new wave of social media cancellations happen? After every credit card processing company ban a group of polemical people? "They are a private company they can decide what to do" Well, maybe if you are extracting 70 billion a year from society it is not that simple as "I can decide who to do business with" I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away.
    - root_axis 6y ago
      > Have you read this site every time a new wave of social media cancellations happen? After every credit card processing company ban a group of polemical people? Every company is allowed to do "whatever they want" if you define "whatever they want" as "legally refuse to do business with an individual" > I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away What? Of course they wouldn't, companies are free to do business with whomever they choose as long as they do not discriminate against a protected class. People who post "stop the steal" is not protected, nor is it a class of people, it is a behavior prohibited by the rules of the platform.
    - dragonwriter 6y ago
      > I think the government would be very interested to initiate an investigation if Shell decided to not fill your tank because they discovered you are a neo-Keynesian, even if there is a Chevron station 3 miles away. Even if that was true, which it is not generally in the US, that's not analogous to what is happening. It's more like if Shell, instead of selling gas for money, was a peer-to-peer gas exchange service, and they decided not to let you participate because the traits of the specific formulation of gas you were providing didn't conform to what they wanted in their exchange network.
      - cambalache 6y ago
        Yeah, what is the trait of the credit card companies,patreon and the hosting companies? Take care of your back, dont bend that much backwards.

CodeArtisan 6y ago

It also has 2.7 billions active users.