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Unless you're a monopoly and then you can do whatever you want because your customers have no alternative. Which Meta is (well, it's a duopoly with Google). An
by safety1st 4y ago
Unless you're a monopoly and then you can do whatever you want because your customers have no alternative. Which Meta is (well, it's a duopoly with Google).
Anyway Meta's customers, and the only entities it cares about, are large ad buyers. None of them will give a crap about this random app and these random human beings getting banned. This has zero impact on their ability to continue writing checks to Meta and continue getting in front of your eyeballs.
If anything Meta's customers will be happy about the ban since this app caused fewer people to see their ads.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThere are plenty platforms out there besides meta; numerous places, fox comments, stormfront forums, gab, truth social, 4 chan, reddit, your own blog, twitter. No one can say that there aren't other platforms.
- safety1st 4y agoMeta is a monopoly. It doesn't matter that other platforms exist. Those platforms don't make a lot of money (at least in the US) and whether you're a monopoly or not is about money. (You also don't need 100% - essentially if you have a lot and you have the power to distort the market, you're a monopoly.) The business of social media is ads. In the US the vast majority of social media ad spend goes to Meta. Thus, monopoly. Google and Meta hold a duopoly over digital ad spending in general. The FTC agrees and is suing Meta for monopolizing social media and the "metaverse." Anything could happen with these lawsuits but they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think they had a good case.