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Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? by boren_ave11 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:45PM (#13870836)
I disagree with those saying that this is a good comparison. Telephone companies were not regulated because they were addictive, but rather because they are a public utility. Facebook possesses none of the characteristics of a public utility:

-Supplies an essential good or service

-Prohibitively expensive to replicate/enormous initial investment

-Inelastic demand

-Region-specific

-Few or zero consumer alternatives

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