Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es...
by forgottenpass on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:16PM
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Social networks pose a really interesting problem to the usual capitalist model
I wouldn't call the network effect so much a "really interesting problem" but more like "one of the many well known failure modes in the fantasy that market effects lead to the 'best' outcomes for any definition of 'best' that isn't tautologically defined as whatever market effects cause to happen."
I wouldn't call the network effect so much a "really interesting problem" but more like "one of the many well known failure modes in the fantasy that market effects lead to the 'best' outcomes for any definition of 'best' that isn't tautologically defined as whatever market effects cause to happen."