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To: Jim 0216
Facebook filled a niche in communications and public image, especially for businesses and organizations such as churches, that most didn't realize was there. The positive value in that is enormous. And Facebook has become almost indispensable in that regard.

Arguing that the free market can provide an alternative to Facebook, while possible, is extremely EXTREMELY difficult. And I say that as a free market advocate myself.

If the original AT&T prior to the breakup had the power to monitor telephone conversations and choose who got to use its service based on political opinion of the customers, they wouldn't have gotten away with it. If they COULD, well... does anyone really think that establishing a competing utility would be a viable option?

Facebook has become a monopoly and worse. It is effectively a cyber superpower nation state with a power-mad geek as its authoritarian tyrant who in some form or another is affecting the lives of EVERYONE.

Time to bust Facebook up.

82 posted on 04/10/2018 5:07:22 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" if conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Time to bust Facebook up.

Where does the Constitution authorize the feds to do that?

91 posted on 04/10/2018 8:26:24 PM PDT by Jim W N
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