Posted on 03/21/2018 11:52:22 AM PDT by servo1969
Make no mistake, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are in trouble — not just here in America, but all over the world. The Tech Tyrant has only himself to blame. Had he just left us alone, he would not be so alone or widely viewed as a monopoly with all the inherent risks in that. He would also not be a national pariah. When you are in charge of something, be it a Girl Scout troop or one of the most powerful tech companies in the world, the only way to stay out of trouble is with simple and clear rules applied equally. By not doing this, Zuckerberg has wrapped himself ’round his own axle.
Even a billion or so Facebook users are unhappy with him. They feel trapped on a platform that offends them. Much of this resentment comes from feeling swindled. After herding us all into his monopolistic public square, Zuckerberg changed the rules.
On both the micro and macro levels, as Facebook arbitrarily singles out conservatives for suppression, censorship, and purges (not to mention left-wing “fact checks”), all while leftists doing the same remain mostly unmolested. There is no question that this is a digital public square lousy with double standards that we all witness on an almost daily basis
Facebook’s entire problem is right there on its page of Kafka-esque “community standards.” What I mean by Kafka-esque is the opaqueness of rules that can be interpreted in so many different ways — which means there really are no rules, which means 1) you don’t know what the boundaries are, so 2) you are intimidated into not expressing yourself fully, and 3) you can be suspended or purged by Facebook without ever knowing why.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Serious as a heart attack.😎
Do those working in Amazon Storage have top secret/secret clearance? If not, this is absurd! Somehow things in last decade have gone downhill to the point of being ‘unsustainable’.
You don't get to pick what is necessary and what is not, that is a job for Communists.
Facebook and Twitter are the greatest political weapon ever devised and your solution is don't use them.
Sure you can start a competitor all you have to do is convince the advertisers that your list of a dozen users is some how superior to their 2.6 billion. Good luck.
Do you remember which prominent politician first pointed out the power of Social Media in the elections? They were rejected out of hand.
They have the same clearance as Hillary's IT specialist.
Unreal. I guess Debbie Wasserman-Schultz hired them too! I guess the Awan family now have jobs, those not going to be prosecuted! (s)
“You don’t get to pick what is necessary and what is not, that is a job for Communists.”
You’re the one deciding to go break up a company which isn’t a monopoly and which you can easily choose to not use, denying others the choice to use it.
Only communists compel people to compel associations with others en masse.
“Facebook and Twitter are the greatest political weapon ever devised and your solution is don’t use them.”
Yes.
Precisely because, based on decades of observation, such sites have a finite lifespan and the predicted mass exodus from FB/T is under way. I _have_ watched vast user counts leave “unstoppable juggernauts” practically overnight for upstarts.
A main point of capitalistic conservatism is “keep gov’t hands off voluntary business”.
Seriously: there is nothing about FB/T which not using proves crippling to one’s standard of living. Your only interest in breaking them up is because YOU don’t like their sociopolitical influence, so you want to use the police power of the state to interfere - which I find anathema, as you’re working against freedom of speech & freedom of association.
Freedom of speech.
Freedom of association.
Freedom of contract.
Remember: Hillary had _everything_ lined up against Trump, and massively lost. We don’t need itsahoot to protect us from Facebook.
Have YOU stopped using Facebook, Twitter, or the like - completely?
A darn shame!? No, boy, it’s time to break out the champagne and schadenfreude! Harmony and justice, when the bad guys get what they deserve.
It’ll be delicious to watch him getting taken down.
Failure to understand what will happen in the future is characteristic of not having to worry about it.
This may well even happen to the Clintons and to the ObamaJarretts as well. The confidence of having gotten away with everything for too long kills your defenses.
That Vero is not in the App Store. Is it not yet functional?
Competitors can not replicate the size of their user base or content which is a key part of the value they offer - the network effects. This makes the barriers to entry level nsurmountable barring a complete shift in the technology. They are monopolies.
I don’t always use the /s tag....
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That's my fault.
I tend not to do very much explaining of my replies; thinking that most folks can figure them out.
The word play of FREE and REQUIRED is what caught my attention.
Your screenname was just more icing on the cake.
LOTS of things are farmed out to contractors.
Yeah, I get you.
You may be the FIRST!
lol
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<3
Well, SOMEBODY had to do it!
lolol
I’m on day seven of being logged out. I might go and check things once a month but I think being permanently logged out will be norm.
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