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Silicon Valley Has an Unfair Advantage, Deutsche Telekom CEO Says
- briandear 12y agoThis is nonsense. Facebook is effectively a website, not an infrastructure in the same vein as telecoms. Why should they be regulated like telecoms? They aren't providing bandwidth or pipes. The DT guy has his business confused. Facebook isn't a utility. It's like the electric company complaining that microwaves funny have to be regulated the same way as power plants. Facebook is ultimately a consumer of telecom infrastructure, not a provider of it.
- cmurf 12y agoI mostly agree, although Zuckerberg has compared Facebook to public utilities water and electricity. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-cool-wears-shirt/story?id=26738638 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mark-zuckerberg-thinks-cool-w... The other thing is that telecoms are inclined to become monopolies due to physical their infrastructure, and then they piss off their users who then petition governments for regulation. The point at which Facebook has sufficiently little competition while also annoying its users, it too will be regulated. But I don't see how you just haphazardly regulate X the same way as Y, just because both seem to do Z.