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re: BREAKING: DOJ opens an antitrust probe into social media companies
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:41 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:41 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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This is pointless if it doesn't also target Google
They are. Alphabet owns Google.
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Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:44 pm to SammyTiger
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Any examples of this?
There have been two Twitter knockoffs - Gab and one that starts with a P.
Mysteriously the apple App Store and Google App Store refused to allow access to them.
Crazy arse Alex Jones was simultaneously banned off of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube on the same day.
You can “conspire” to eliminate competition and/or restrain trade. It’s the essence of an antitrust case. Big Tech either as related entities or conspiring with unrelated entities is committing antitrust violations, and its apparent.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:46 pm to stout
I’ve been clamoring for this for a long time!
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:48 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Depending on big govt to save you sounds a lot like small govt in action, apparently.
To save who?
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:14 pm to SammyTiger
quote:Seriously? Thanks for outing yourself as the uninformed idiot that you are.
Any examples of this? Like what kind of companies is google Stopping? And how?
Do me a favor. Go on Bing or Duck Duck Go and search “Goggle monopolistic behavior”. Educate yourself fool.
This post was edited on 7/23/19 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:17 pm to SammyTiger
I tell you what libtards. Go raise $100 million to start a competitor to Twitter or Facebook and see how far you get.
You will be blocked from doing business with numerous tech companies needed to enter the market by the tech giants.
Go on, try it.
You will be blocked from doing business with numerous tech companies needed to enter the market by the tech giants.
Go on, try it.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:27 pm to LSUconvert
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Of course? Freedom of speech anyone?
Your big brain [sarcasm off] is going to have to explain to me how Standard Oil, or Ma Bell being broken up by antitrust violations was a violation of their speech?
Cuz the breakup of social media wont be either
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:35 pm to ThinePreparedAni
They always say..."derr if you don't like it, start your own social media platform ".. but when people do start their own social media platform, all the big social media platforms team up and make sure it doesn't really take off.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:36 pm to LSUconvert
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Of course? Freedom of speech anyone?
Exactly! Why are those companies trying to stifle free expression??
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:36 pm to stout
They better make it count. Too many sheep, and I am talking about a lot of our nation’s population will believe what is on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The studies showing the influence of these companies is beyond concerning.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:37 pm to RobbBobb
I don't see how the anticompetitive argument holds water when Google service is free and you can do a search for Bing or Duckduckgo, get a result at the top of the page and go to a rival search engine.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:41 pm to stout
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:43 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Depending on big govt to save you sounds a lot like small govt in action, apparently.
How is it "big government"?
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:46 pm to ThinePreparedAni
Burn them to the fricking ground.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:53 pm to TigerMikeAtl
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Need to start with Google and Facebook
I would only go after Google. Hardcore. Break it up, AT&T style. The search engine, the mobile phone business, Gmail, Maps, and other owned businesses like Whats App and Waze are all broken into constituent parts and spun off as independent entities with data sharing firewalls established. Android phones can no longer ship with Gmail.
Take a sledgehammer to it.
The others will get the message...and if they don't, Amazon is next.
This post was edited on 7/23/19 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:57 pm to Dale51
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How is it "big government"?
Having an arm of the government force a private business to enact certain policies is decidedly not in favor of the free market.
Having an arm of the government prosecute either a civil or criminal case because its politics differ from that of a ruling party is even worse.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 7:59 pm to Dale51
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Exactly! Why are those companies trying to stifle free expression??
Generally speaking if customers are unhappy with a company's services they leave.
Why are people not abandoning this service they hate?
Why are we resorting to have government solve this problem?
Posted on 7/23/19 at 8:05 pm to NYNolaguy1
quote:When those businesses coordinate with other businesses to lock competition out of the market, i.e. Twitter, Apple, etc., they are not functioning within a free market either.
Having an arm of the government force a private business to enact certain policies is decidedly not in favor of the free market.
These entities ARE the gate keepers to the internet.
This is no different than Standard Oil or Bell, imo.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 8:06 pm to ThinePreparedAni
frick yes
Posted on 7/23/19 at 8:08 pm to Scruffy
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When those businesses coordinate with other businesses to lock competition out of the market, i.e. Twitter, Apple, etc., they are not functioning within a free market either.
Theres a super simple solution that will quickly send the right message for this behavior... quit using said service.
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