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The DOJ has announced they’re opening an antitrust probe into social media companies.
twitter.com/TrumpStudents ^ | 07/23/2019 | Staff

Posted on 07/23/2019 2:35:15 PM PDT by Red Badger

“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands."



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doj; facebook; google; internet; siliconvalley; socialmedia; technotyranny; techtyranny
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To: Red Badger

UTILITIES

MAKE THEM UTILITIES!!!


21 posted on 07/23/2019 3:18:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t worry, this is Job Hunting by people in the DOJ that are getting ready to retire and are looking for a cushy job on a board or as a consultant.


22 posted on 07/23/2019 3:36:32 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Red Badger

Good.


23 posted on 07/23/2019 3:42:48 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Rebelbase

They may be free for public use, but they are not free for small business to use. And even if you pay to play, their nasty little hidden algorithms that no one ever wants you to know how they work...can make sure you are never seen and that means the public isn’t getting what they are searching for.


24 posted on 07/23/2019 3:54:13 PM PDT by EBH (DNC=Party NON GRATA)
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To: Red Badger

Take all their assets and lock them up. If treason has been committed carry out swift executions.


25 posted on 07/23/2019 3:56:50 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Red Badger

Apple shouldn’t worry.

I can buy other phones, computers, tablets, etc.

I can’t use a different Facebook and I can’t get rid of Google, it keeps coming back..............
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That’s 100% correct. I can buy any one of the hundreds of non Apple smartphones and easily email, phone or text message with folks in the Apple ecosystem. Clearly, Apple hasn’t constructed a monopoly.

But if I go with some alternative social platform other than Facebook or Twitter I CAN’T ENGAGE with folks who are on Facebook or Twitter which monopolize the customers in their respective spheres. This is INTENTIONAL ON THE PART of Facebook and Twitter...they want to be monopolies and make outcasts of and silence folks taking DEPLORABLE views,


26 posted on 07/23/2019 4:19:37 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: Red Badger

Hell yes! Its about time. Years overdue in fact.

Alphabet is the absolute worst. Facebook is next. Then Twitter. They’re all clearly monopolies. They all engage in rent seeking activity and abuse of their market position as well as viewpoint discrimination. Don’t just look at them, bring antitrust actions against all of them.


27 posted on 07/23/2019 4:44:46 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Chickensoup

They edit content= publisher. Publisher=libel. Once they started editing, they quit being a platform
This need to happen now.. we are running out of time.


28 posted on 07/23/2019 5:18:34 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged cash, a medicare card control.)
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To: Red Badger
Google, Facebook and Twitter are colluding to decide who/what gets heard and who gets shut up, silenced and hidden away in the digital space. This is a big threat to a free democracy. Google, Facebook and Twitter are ganging up to decide what is acceptable speech and messages and what should be censored.

They do this despicable censorship under various pretexts and justifications that have been proved to be just political bias.

Google especially has become too large, and control too much that they are dismissive and unresponsive to consumer complaints of censorship and bias. These three entities, particularly Google, have a huge controlling monopoly in the digital space. They are using this monopoly for political thuggery.

29 posted on 07/23/2019 5:29:49 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: momincombatboots

Utility

No content editing

Provide platform

Is Utility

censorship occurs with tools by the user.


30 posted on 07/23/2019 5:30:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Red Badger

Bust them up! Bust them up! Bust them up!


31 posted on 07/23/2019 5:42:29 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Censorship is illegal, censor them LOL

And I thought the sessions comments were dumb


32 posted on 07/23/2019 6:55:51 PM PDT by BiggBob
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To: for-q-clinton
That's because the Kenyan Dancing Boy and his DOJ thugs wanted the cash.


33 posted on 07/23/2019 7:25:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Red Badger

Go after print media and televised news media too.


34 posted on 07/23/2019 8:24:26 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Red Badger

It’s about time. I hope this is just the beginning. Time to break up some of these global monopolies. Especially those who do not have American interests at heart.


35 posted on 07/23/2019 10:29:30 PM PDT by MagillaX
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To: Revel

They need to be charged with illegal in-kind contributions to one candidate in elections..................


36 posted on 07/24/2019 6:04:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Rebelbase

They aren’t free. People pay by forfeiting a measure of privacy and free expression. They also support the advertising. More than a few are catching on.


37 posted on 07/24/2019 6:05:03 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Moorings

FB and Alphabet [Google’s Parent company] are deeply in bed with the Intel services of the world, not just ours. Russia, China, EU, and any other dictatorship wannabes that have electricity wires, are all coalescing under their umbrella of ‘security’.

One world government?.....We already have it and nobody noticed...................


38 posted on 07/24/2019 6:16:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Zathras

Many of these companies should have been under anti trust investigation long ago.... Instead they bought out regulators and elected officials and got more buyouts and consolidations approved.


39 posted on 07/24/2019 6:17:54 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: MagillaX

All these huge tech companies are full dedicated to the ideology of ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, with each nation just a political division within that sphere. That is their goal and they are well upon their way of achieving that goal............


40 posted on 07/24/2019 6:18:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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