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The Revolutionary Act ^ | 06/06/19

[NobleFree]

Monopoly or not, blocking posters reduces the value offered to advertisers.

Please provide a link to Facebook advertising revenues that support your claim.

Total ad revenue is affected by many things other than blocking posters. My "claim" is self-evident: what FB sells to advertisers is eyeballs, and blocking reduces eyeballs.

[NobleFree]

SM does have that power.

So you claim - along with the left, who claim Russian use of SM elected Trump.

[crusher2013]

Breitbart did a study on the 2016 election and said that SM swayed 3 million voters towards HC.

I’m sure you can find it if you try.

Breitbart isn’t exactly leftwing and I am not a Russian bot!

[FreeReign]

Anyway, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube along with Big Government have become a crony capitalist monopolistic conglomeration of power.

And your solution is more government? Fight fire with gasoline much?

You're the one who believes in Big Government truth-in-labeling requirements. You just said so in your previous post.

And you're also the one who said property gained through crony capitalism is "private property".

You're surrounded by fire and you don't even know it.

[FreeReign]

Total ad revenue is affected by many things other than blocking posters. My "claim" is self-evident: what FB sells to advertisers is eyeballs, and blocking reduces eyeballs.

So then why do you think that FB knowingly reduces eyeballs??

[NobleFree]

Breitbart did a study on the 2016 election and said that SM swayed 3 million voters towards HC.

I’m sure you can find it if you try.

I just spent several minutes doing your homework for you, and found no such Breitbart story.

Ball's in your court - put up (a link) or shut up.

[NobleFree]

You're the one who believes in Big Government truth-in-labeling requirements.

Still less government than what you're proposing.

[minnesota_bound]

#23 those companies are already doing this!

“the next thing the left will be doing is preventing dissidents from being able to use bank accounts or get mortgages.”

[NobleFree]

Total ad revenue is affected by many things other than blocking posters. My "claim" is self-evident: what FB sells to advertisers is eyeballs, and blocking reduces eyeballs.

So then

You concede that blocking posters is not a monopolistic use of pricing power?

why do you think that FB knowingly reduces eyeballs??

Because they're run by leftists - did you think I disputed that point?

[JonPreston]

That isn’t FBs business model. People & their personal data is. Users are FB.

[crusher2013]

I heard it on breitbart news with linda Mansor and Joel Pollak. They have had the expert on muliple times.

I will send you the link later today.

[NobleFree]

I will send you the link later today.

I look forward to it.

[NobleFree]

That isn’t FBs business model. People & their personal data is.

Blocking posters certainly doesn't increase the data FB has to sell - so it still has nothing to do with exercising pricing power.

[JonPreston]

Again, you don’t understand. Once FB has my data it has my data, regardless if I’m on the platform or banned.

[FreeReign]

Still less government than what you're proposing.

And what exactly did I propose to you?

I simply started our conversation by pointing out that you are not for small government as you claim.

And I gave you two examples, one of them being a very big example, which was that you think that property gained through Big Government crony capitalism, is private.

Assuming that we have a Big Government crony capitalist monopoly, how would you stop that?

[FreeReign]

Which is it? Is Big Tech allowed to use their property as they like or are they subject to truth-in-labeling requirements?

Both - they may use as they like and must disclose the criteria of that use. No contradiction.

If they are required to disclose the criteria of that use, then they are NOT free to use their property as they like.

You are indeed contradicting yourself.

[Pajamajan]

"more dangerous to the country and the discourse to work to shut down the entire public square on behalf of your feelings than it is that people sometimes call you mean names. Grow the f*** up.”

There is something VERY wrong with your ideas if they can't stand up to public scrutiny and you try to shut down anyone who disagrees with you.

[NobleFree]

Still has nothing to do with exercising pricing power.

[FreeReign]

Monopoly or not, blocking posters reduces the value offered to advertisers.

They block some of their posters, to maintain their crony capitalist monopoly, which will ultimately give them more eye balls than if they had to compete freely on an un-crony-capitalist playing field

[NobleFree]

If they are required to disclose the criteria of that use, then they are NOT free to use their property as they like.

False - disclosure of use is not use.