[RicocheT]

The WSJ site is paw walled but if you aren't a subscriber, read this at the library or ask a friend for his/her copy.

It is very convincing that FB unchecked will own your brain or those of your kids/grandkids.

We conservatives support free enterprise but FB is becoming bigger than our government in power.

[TheConservator]

This article is behind a paywall.

I quit facebook several years ago now.

Anybody still on facebook (or using twitter, or using google, or using apple) should quit immediately.

[kiryandil]

https://archive.vn/MGj1F

[Lumper20]

Facebook sells your info to insurance companies and many more companies.

[NWFree]

FascistBook is for nazis 🤪

Sieg heil

[kiryandil]

On June 28, 2021 a previous case was dismissed by a federal judge [Deep State puppet-judge James E. Boasberg, an Odiousbama appointee], who said the states failed to prove Facebook was a monopoly.

[cgbg]

I have been preaching for a long time that Facebook was a de facto monopoly/cartel—good to see the WSJ folks _finally_ figured it out...

We had these debates in the late 1800s and early 1900s—and it took the leadership, vision and courage of Teddy Roosevelt to “bust the trusts”.

I was really hoping we were going to see that in 2017....

[enumerated]

I never go on FB myself, but it’s monopoly power still does me harm because so many others use it constantly, and don’t even realize or care that they are being brainwashed.

Try as I might, I can’t insulate myself from the consequences of other people’s mistakes.

I feel that I am on a ship of FB fools, in the middle of the ocean, and it’s sinking.

Sure, since I never visit FB, it has no influence over me directly, and I can pat myself on the back for being so “wise”.

But the problem remains: I’m stuck in the middle of the ocean on this ship of FB fools.

[Political Junkie Too]

The WSJ site is pay-walled...

It's only paywalled if you click directly to it. If you paste the title into a Google search and then click on the Google link to it, you will get to the full article.

The trade-off is giving Google the hit versus reading the article.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

More privacy laws and regulations are unlikely to solve the problems either. Facebook repeatedly pretends to support and champion privacy regulations, which it then ignores and violates. The company then pays the fines it incurs as a “cost of doing business.” One example: In 2019 the company announced it would pay a $5 billion settlement for violating a consent decree with the FTC that required the company to better protect the personal data of its users.

If jail time were included in the penalty, this disregard for the law might change.

-PJ

[Dave Wright]

The issue with Facebook is not that it is a monopoly. Even if it was broken into smaller business the social media piece would still be operating in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Mark Zukerberg and the moderators of Facebook have a set of deeply held religious beliefs which are loosely known as “wokeness”. By denying access to people with different deeply held beliefs (i.e. traditional conservatives) they are violating the Civil Rights Act and should be held legally liable in court. This is also true for Google, Twitter, and any internet site that removes content or blocks users for purely ideological reasons.

[Honorary Serb]

Facebook is among the oligarchs who STOLE (not “saved”) the 2020 Presidential election!!!!

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

Anyone who says that it is a lie that that election was stolen is themself a great big liar!!!!

[Ransomed]

Pong

Freegards

[joma89]

Why do people who write stuff in papers seem to be more believed or have a bigger voice than the rest of us who do not write stuff in papers?

[Eleutheria5]

Duh. Good morning, WSJ.

[livius]

Does anybody here use MeWe? If so, what is your experience with it?

[Chode]

facebruck, the one world government/new world order

[upchuck]

This is the Farcebook Is Evil ping list.

h/t pookie18's cartoons

Facebook is a perfect example of socialism:
You get it for free but the quality sucks.
You have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it gets rich.
There's no real competition.
You have no privacy.
And if you say one thing they don't like
they'll shut you up.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail

[Albion Wilde]

bump

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"Facebook Is a Monopoly WSJ opinion."

Newsmax is gone from youtube.!!

[luvie]

Well....she’s dead, Jim.

For the moment anyway.