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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,

Actually Facebook only provides a faster, easier way to do what you can already do. It’s not saving anyone money because indirectly the goods and services we buy every day pays for the advertisement. It also costs every user a large degree of privacy. At some point in the future if the powers that be decide to start rounding up groups of people a ready made road map is there for the taking.

We already know it is a recruiting tool for terrorist’s and such. We already know a great deal of censorship is being conducted with Twitter and Facebook.

That’s far more power than that MotherZucker deserves or can handle.