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To: alexander_busek

Facebook is the scourge of the planet the enemy if you will. They like Google wield power far out of proportion to any use they provide. Most people don’t understand how they are being manipulated and herded. Lawsuits are are the only way to peacefully wage war on them.

conservatives are going to be on the loosing end of this if they don’t wise up and fight against this ruthlessness. We are in the 11th hour.


14 posted on 02/14/2013 1:21:32 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Facebook is the scourge of the planet

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Well, at least you have things in perspective.


16 posted on 02/14/2013 2:11:26 PM PST by dmz
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
They like Google wield power far out of proportion to any use they provide.

Hundreds of millions of people would beg to differ with you. Facebook's customers, who collectively have spent many billions of hours on their platform, obviously believe that it provides preeminent utility. Thanks to free-market mechanisms, they can avail themselves of the nifty functionality it offers. The same applies to Google.

Of course, you are free to reject, for yourself, the products/services which Facebook and/or Google supply (by and large free of any overt charge) and even to believe that they are in some way actually harmful to their clientele (e.g., because people become too dependent upon them, become addicted to being online, spend increasingly more time in virtual worlds, etc.). But that does not entitle you to "wage war" (albeit peacefully) by lodging specious claims against them. And as I've pointed out in my earlier posts above, the moral principle you are attempting to establish (that a seller bears responsibility for the malicious acts of the buyers of his products/services) stands in complete opposition to true Conservatism.

Most people don’t understand how they are being manipulated and herded.

Sadly, that is true. But the mere fact that you "don't like" something or someone does not give you an ethical basis for combating it on the grounds that you have cited.

conservatives are going to be on the loosing [sic] end of this if they don’t wise up and fight against this ruthlessness. We are in the 11th hour.

The court judgments which you apparently would like to see passed against Facebook and Google would establish legal precedents which would limit our individual freedoms and greatly weaken our free society.

Regards,

17 posted on 02/15/2013 10:38:08 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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