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
Facebooks 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 dont 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 ...
See Samantha Power’s husband Cass Sunstein, of Obama Admin’s OIRA... and his book The Nudge
Nonsense, there were plenty of Democrats with their hands in the Federal cookie jar long before & after 1861.
The only thing new in 1861, just as 2017, was Dims lost their privileged position at the government trough, and it made them madder 'n h*ll.
Nothing new here.
Well itsahoot has no intention of helping you out of your deluded world view because if you think FaceBook is not a monopoly there is no helping you. Remember when Ma Bell was the only choice? Well everyone just refused to use their service and they changed, right?
What is Facebook providing you that you can’t get from anywhere else, and without which you can’t reasonably function in modern society?
I recently deleted my Facebook app, and haven’t been on since. No loss.
I don't Facebook or tweet period. But I recognize the power of them and google, some here think we an just ignore them and they will lose their power, nothing could be further from the truth.
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