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Re:Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias again... by gnaritas on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @11:11PM (#11767438)
You're talking about things you don't understand, there is no case anyone can rationally make that Facebook is subject to anti-trust laws. You do not have to use Facebook, there are tons of other social networking sites, Facebook is not using anti-competitive practices to prevent competition.

Anti-trust laws require far more than just being popular to apply and there's nothing in them that applies to Facebook or any other website. Anti-trust laws in the U.S. have never successfully been used against a website because the very notion is absurd.

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Re:Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias again... by nametakenobv on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:39AM (#11768044)
There are clear methods to decide if a company has dominant position or not. It has nothing to do with whether you can use another one or not. Perhaps you don't have an idea what you are talking about.
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Re:Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias again... by gnaritas on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:38PM (#11771074)
You're wrong, simple as that. Being dominant simply is not enough. The FTC couldn't even make a case against Google, a far more dominant company than Facebook. You're just making shit up dude, just stop, there is no case here for anti-trust nor will there be.
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Re:Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias again... by nametakenobv on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:22PM (#11771454)
>You're wrong, simple as that. Being dominant simply is not enough.

Yeah, I'm gonna bet on me and my law degree for being right about that. Whether Facebook is in a dominant position is for the court to decide.

You on the other hand are a funny... dude. Haha, "dude" he says :)

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Re:Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias again... by gnaritas on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:49PM (#11771651)
Great, get back to me when hell freezes over, because that'll happen before Facebook is ever taken down by anti-trust laws.
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Re:Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias again... by dang on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:36PM (#11772455)
You frequently break the HN guidelines by being uncivil. This is not ok, and we've warned you many times before. If you keep doing it we're going to ban you, despite the fact that we (and I personally) have bent over backwards to avoid doing that.
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