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Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by philipov on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:31AM (#37943418)
> None of which is intended to let Facebook off the hook. There are better ways of doing this that don’t involve banning people for life without explaining (clearly) but I at least do understand how we got to this ridiculous state of affairs.

The conclusion people should draw from this is that companies as big as Facebook should not be allowed to exist. They can get away with this because they have too much leverage in the vendor-client power balance.

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Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by johnnyanmac on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:30AM (#37944262)
> companies as big as Facebook should not be allowed to exist

how would you solve that? A big problem is that the primary product isn't in and of itself that profitable. So it's hard to encourage competition there. And if you can't ask for money from the consumer you resort to ads.

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