Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup

Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:07PM (#19364741)

> Dissecting the company along those lines does nothing to curb their cumulative potential effect on controlling what ads a user sees

If I can reach my audience through Facebook or Instagram, that’s more competition than Facebook properties alone.

> They all hook into the same ad backend anyways

Hence the call to break them up.

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Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by nopriorarrests on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:34PM (#19364870)

>If I can reach my audience through Facebook or Instagram, that’s more competition than Facebook properties alone.

I mean, if anything, competition will lower the price per contact with potential voter? What problem it will solve?

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Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by dymk on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:59PM (#19364976)

How in the world is that enforceable, or legal?

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Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by mirimir on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:37AM (#19365455)

Well, there was the Bell System. But arguably that didn't work as planned. And it probably couldn't happen today.

But regulation as a public utility might work.

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