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 ...
Zuckerberg isn’t in trouble because he’s targeting or has unfair rules regarding conservatives. They are in trouble because liberals are livid that Facebook is now perceived as helping the Trump campaign via “fake news” and the Cambridge Analytica mess.
Facebook is a liberal echo chamber. They don’t give a shit if conservatives hate them.
Yes.
Some folks are pissed that they didn't read the disclaimer plainly shown when they first joined FB.
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You've lived up to your screen name.
No; splashy color ads and goofy animal videos.
BINGO!
Yup.
Targeting is not as accurate as it could be...
Not teens!!
Others log to rule.
I know some small biz owners who abandoned their websites for Facebook pages. I wonder if Facebook collected data on customers who aren’t members of Facebook....
Hey, I got suspended for the same reason!
No. Perfectly apt analogy. The behemoths I listed are effectively monopolies. Their market dominance and network effects from being the established platform make it well nigh impossible for others to EFFECTIVELY compete.....the same rationale that was used in regulatory action against Microsoft.
Its not that there are no competitors. Its that twitter, YouTube and Facebook have already effectively cornered the market. Look at the sheer volume of content as compared to their tiny competitors.
As monopolies they should be subject to antitrust action by the DOJ - particularly if they are going to abuse their monopoly position by censoring speech like they are.
They’re only dominant because those markets thrive on user-chosen concentration. You’d have to tell the users to go elsewhere; how do you “break up” a business which dominates only because customers chose it? Again, access to alternatives has zero friction in this market - people only chose FB/T because others did. The only reason I haven’t quit either is because people I want to follow are there; ditto everyone else.
The examples you gave have inherent friction they leveraged into dominance, making it hard for people to go elsewhere. Social media has no leverageable friction, nothing that competitors can’t do.
...not sure what that drivel is supposed to mean. Do you even know the meaning? (rhetorical)
Why should a virtual public space be any different than a physical public space? If you want to impose “rules” then you should have a PAID FOR private space.
Think.
Oops!
You can live without Gasoline and electricity too, I have done it. Life is better with them just like life is better for some with FB & Twit or FreeRepublic..
If you’re trying to justify your argument by equating the social vitality of Facebook to electricity, you’ve lost the argument.
Are you serious? Pentagon has storage with Amazon? Bezos is O Drama buddy...unbelievable.
That would be even funnier, if you were a man...lol
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