Nationalization is cool. But a break-up of Facebook is an acceptable compromise.
WHAT IF .... Gore had won and followed thru with the breakup of Microsoft? Then we would way more precedent to go after Google, Facebook.
My stance was made clear, I oppose the direct attacks to the First Amendment, as well as am hesitant to allow the full nationalization of all social media companies.
There you go, proof you are objectively wrong.
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How do you break up Facebook?
Do people have to only be friends with others in their area? The only thing that would happen, is that people would all migrate to a single platform, where they are around the most possible people. It's size is a feature, not a bug.
"truth" is not a qualifier much less a quantifier of anything objective beyond personal opinions.
Like with Youtube, there really aren't. Any attempt to break it up destroys the main draw of the platform. Now, I might find that acceptable in the case of Facebook (seriously, folks, privacy is lovely), but Youtube only exists largely as it does because that's what consumers want. Any breaking up of that model isn't just an action against Youtube, it's an action against those users. Against all the Youtubers who make a living off the site, as it is, for instance, and likely won't survive if they have to pick one subsidiary and a fraction of their old audience.
There's ways to reform Youtube, but I'd frankly support nationalization to institute a non-profit model over any kind of breakup.
Once again, that sets a very dangerous precedent, of censoring verifiably true information.
We're well past "fire in a crowded theater" territory.
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People would just make a different one, one that is privately-owned, and switch to that.
I mean, force them to sell off competitors they purchased despite having their own services offering similar things. Like WhatsApp and Instagram.
That's like, the least imaginative step to take and it's a hugely obvious first step. Facebook is absolutely part of an oligopoly of social media companies, and is by far the biggest and most aggressive when it comes to buying out potential competitors early and either killing off the brand and integrating them into their services or simply keeping the brand that's already popular and profiting off of it.
When I keep talking about a failure of imagination, it's shit like this.