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Why take them down? That's someone's free speech right? This is what we're told about false information and political ads with outright lies in them, aren't we? Why would this be any different?

Rather predictable that the "line" for taking something down suddenly appears when you're lying to Facebook. Lie to other users and it's fine... as long as you are a real commodity, ahem, I mean "person."

Cease to lie in a way that allows Facebook to make money (not much point serving ads to bots, is there?), and all of the sudden you're taken down. Funny that.

Tell that to the financial industry, real estate brokers, etc. etc. etc.

We didn't make this reality, we just live in it.

Is it time for the government to drag financial sector jobs out of New York? Is it time for the US to drag credit card companies out of Delaware, or agribusiness out of the heartland and toward the coasts?

No. It isn't.

Funny the regionally exclusive monopolies that we seem to have tolerated for literally decades and the ones we suddenly, for some reason, don't.

Or maybe it isn't funny at all. Maybe it's a totally predictable outcome of a system that is highly tolerant of calcified, politically-connected regional monopolies. A system that is intolerant of disruptive, politically-indifferent or unestablished regional monopolies.

In other words, this isn't about economic efficiency or anti-trust law. It's about political sour grapes first. Everything else second.

Anti-trust is truly dead. We're re-doing the gilded age everyone, strap in. This'll be great this time, we promise.