re: BREAKING: DOJ opens an antitrust probe into social media companies

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1. It is the most accessible and easy way to get his message out, considering the media’s inability to put anything positive and Trump in the same sentence.

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Being as most of his message is getting censored anyway this is somewhat of a moot point. There are other means of communication- texts, phone, email, mail, etc. Believe it or not campaigns have won before without it, and given how little conservative speech is tolerated by big tech its becoming less of an issue.

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It is a political weapon to motivate his base (this is despite my opinion that the tech industry needs to be fractured into smaller entities).

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So openly declare war on big tech and let the fireworks start. Make it a campaign issue and nullify the other side by pointing out its no where near unbiased.

Will go nowhere.

The entire issue and compass on how people feel about this can be easily spelled out.

How do you feel about the Ma Bell Monopoly case?

Because thats precisely where we are at. In 2019, this is the exact mirror of that case.

Nothing like this has existed before just like the telephone industry. This is new technology that started out pretty modest as a utility and has evolved well further than anyone could have predicted, and well past it's intended initial use. The service manufacturer was providing the hardware..

And it's now influencing millions of people and there are 3 main players that control the entire industry.

How did you feel about Ma Bell? Apply that here, it's that simple. Big govt, small govt, this needs to be addressed.

Too much power without oversight it's what we are talking about more than anything else, and in that respect this is 100 times more important than Ma Bell

I think You can argue that these companies aren’t a monopoly on the scale Bell was. Bell basically owned every phone line in the county. There are other search engines, online stores, phone manufacturers and service providers. Apple, Google, and Amazon overlap and compete with each other a lot.

And there are always ways into the internet around them.

We aren’t bailing out every mom and pop grocery store from Walmart, why are we trying to save small time internet businesses?

Facebook is another story.

I think There is a strong arguement that we could split them and instagram, but like I said, all social media works best when everyone uses the same apps. Connectivity is the point.

Google needs investigation

It's a link to a facebook video about google...but it's worth a listen..

But people have validnother options

They just don’t choose them.
Yahoo is there. It just isn’t as good.

How many industries have such a divide in quality? How do you break up a search engine? What stops people from continuing to go to google once it’s been broken up?

And you can’t say “they corner 80% of the market” and then say the answer is splitting off Android.

What does that do for the search engine market? They actually have TONS of competition in the cell phone market.

Even Facebook really just clobbered it’s competition.

When it first came out everyone had a MySpace. And the Facebook was cooler and a little better designed. And slowly but surely it just crushed MySpace.

Yup.

Yahoo.

That’s a viable option.

Let me ask you. You seem pretty anti google

How often do you choose to use yahoo?

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People have tried starting other companies only to have them bought out or limited by the larger companies

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“Only to give them bought out” makes it seem like they didn’t just sell their companies.

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Of course? Freedom of speech anyone?

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So you agree that corporations are people?

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How often do you choose to use yahoo?

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I only use duck

And lets pretend like the govt didn't have to step in to bust up Google and Yahoo