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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by dvt on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:01AM (#15737909)
Why do we need to break up FB? That makes no sense to me. In previous antitrust cases, there was always the economic argument (to help out up-and-coming competitors or to prevent price gouging). But Snapchat clearly showed that new players can compete.

Are we breaking them up because they have "too much information"? What does that even mean? A move like that would be beyond unprecedented.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by volgo on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:42PM (#15742069)
The point for government to breakup anything is to prevent monopoly.

NYTimes is far from a monopoly - there are tons of news site with more traffic. But there's no competitor that comes close to Facebook

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by dvt on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:01PM (#15743253)
And the purpose of preventing a monopoly is, yet again, generally an economic one: to prevent price gouging or help out smaller competitors. Neither of those applies to FB.
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by volgo on Monday November 20, 2017 @06:20PM (#15744280)
It could be a monopoly on ideology too. There's a precedent for this. Back in the early days of broadcasting, NBC was broken up into NBC + ABC for having too much control of public discourse
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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by dvt on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:56AM (#15746668)
This is simply not true. It was an economic argument[1]. Newer & smaller radio stations could not compete. And if anyone should be broken up for monopolizing online ad revenue, it should probably be Google (Alphabet).

[1] http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

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