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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by bilbo0s on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:41PM (#23647516)
Why is it worthwhile to "fix" society's "unpleasant" aspects? And who, exactly, determines which aspects are "unpleasant"?

Much better from my perspective to have multiple huge "big corporates" protest each other to the point of landing economic body blows. That's the tried and true "let the market solve the problem" solution.

So everyone can vote with their dollars.

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by cy_hauser on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:47PM (#23647907)
A large percent of the world has little to no money. They have no real choice except to accept free with all the consequences. Not using a service like facebook may not be realistic when the percentage of a group using it gets above a useful/necessary threshold.
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