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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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