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I guess you could make a case for FB being a de facto monopoly on connecting with friends and therefore needing to behave in certain consumer-friendly ways. Al
by drx 14y ago
I guess you could make a case for FB being a de facto monopoly on connecting with friends and therefore needing to behave in certain consumer-friendly ways.
Alternatively, "you want to do business in our country, you must follow our rules".
Not that I agree.
- stared 14y agoSure, monopolies needs to be controlled. (Especially then there is no longer free market.) However, for me there is a strong difference whether a monopoly chances rules (or as time goes by, the world changes - see move/music distributors) or people accepted it before it was a monopoly. E.g. imagine that Germany say that HN needs to have pictures or, at very least, thumbnails. ;)
- pacala 14y ago> E.g. imagine that Germany say that HN needs to have pictures or, at very least, thumbnails. ;) This is a weak slippery slope argument. Germany is not making arbitrary requests on web sites. Rather it is protecting the right of its citizens to anonymity, according to pre-existing laws.
- Roybatty 14y agoAlternatively, North Korea, Mozambique, Cubs, and France can also say that, but why does it matter?