It’s illegal because they are politically advocating for one side. Once you do that you relinquish your privacy rights in the public sphere if you operate commercially. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that.
Think of it this way. Say you decide to start a business and you decide to advertise it in one place only, the NYT. Eventually, they decide not to run your ads anymore. Who’s to blame when you stop getting business? You, because you put all your eggs in one basket and it’s someone else’s basket.
>> Facebook allows businesses to have more than one page, and we did own them and had them for years. <<
That’s like saying you owned page 6 of the NYT. No one OWNS a page on facebook.com except for facebook. Even when you create a facebook page, you’re title is “Administrator” not Owner.
There’s a reason they say “word of mouth” is the best advertisement. It’s free and no other entity controls it.
If facebook went bankrupt and closed the site tomorrow, he’d be in the same boat.
He should have started moving his eggs out of that basket a year or two ago. It’s not like we didn’t know about who they are and what they think of us.
I’d been thinking about quitting facebook since the 2016 elections and finally did a few months ago. I canceled my personal account which canceled any services and apps of theirs that I used. I have a few websites and they had the ability to sign up and sign in with a facebook account. Very convenient as people don’t have to fill out a form with their email address, user name, password etc and then confirm their email address, to sign up. Just two clicks instead. I ditched it anyway.
People do have the ability to sign up/sign in to my sites with https://mewe.com however. Also reddit until they decide to delete the reddit.com/r/The_Donald sub reddit, then I’ll ditch them too.
I just lost one site. A photographer. She get’s plenty of work via facebook but not buying ads, word of mouth. She’s a rabid leftist anyway so I didn’t mind losing her and she fits right in with fb. They can have each other. She would have had to spend a few thousand $$s for me to get her site on the first page of a web search.
Just think of all the right leaning news sites. How did you find them? Word of mouth aka a link here on FR most likely. I’ve never seen townhall, breitbart etc advertised anywhere.
We can beat the new school by going old school. $300k in fb ads? Probably could have got some advertising air time on Rush or Hannity’s radio shows for that.