Removing Bad Actors on Facebook

Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by ucaetano on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:18PM (#17656709)

> Facebook is at or near monopoly status

Monopoly status for what?

Ads? No.

Online ads? No.

Communication amongst friends? No.

Reading news? No.

They have a monopoly on what?

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by themagician on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:36PM (#17656856)

Misused image macros and pyramid schemes.

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by ucaetano on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:44PM (#17656931)

> pyramid schemes.

What? Did Herbalife and Amway went out of business and nobody told me so I could celebrate?

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by SimbaOnSteroids on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:17PM (#17658168)

Pyramid scheme incubator

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by bvc35 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:42PM (#17656900)

I think they have a monopoly on social media.

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by colejohnson66 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:01PM (#17657083)

Except they don’t? Twitter is pretty big too. Facebook is just the biggest player.

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by nailer on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:55AM (#17660721)

Twitter is an order of magnitude smaller than FB

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Re:Removing Bad Actors on Facebook by ucaetano on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:26PM (#17657336)

And that's before you even get into the issue of defining the market (a necessary step for any analysis of monopoly power): what is social media?

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