Re:Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
by boren_ave11 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:45PM
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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
-Supplies an essential good or service
-Prohibitively expensive to replicate/enormous initial investment
-Inelastic demand
-Region-specific
-Few or zero consumer alternatives