it is sad..
But I fail to see how it’s illegal..
Facebook, love um or hate um is still a private company.
That said, the zuck is, as Holder said today a MF..
and this shit will continue until something comes along and challenges them for the top spot.
It’s business. And Facebook destroyed Brian’s investment in a matter of minutes. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3695841/posts?page=8#8 ...
So is an invading horde and both have the same goal.
It is a clear FEC violation, and perhaps criminal as well...blatant manipulation of the upcoming midterm elections -- by the NYTimes' own admission! -- at a magnitude 100x greater than anything "The Russians" ever even tried to do.
I still have a FB account.
This article is posted there
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.
They enticed a business to invest under false pretense, changed terms and financially impacted their income.
I'd call it fraud.
“Facebook, love um or hate um is still a private company.”
So are railroads.
In the 1870s they held a near monopoly on transportation in the US, much as Facebook and Twitter now enjoy a near monopoly on social media distribution through market power.
Rather than offer equal rates to all shippers, railroads were engaging in price discrimination and favoritism that threatened the survival of western farmers.
This situation ignited a grassroots voter rebellion organized around the Grange movement. The eventual result was the 1887 Interstate Commerce Act that compels railroads to offer the same rates to all prospective shippers. It was the first regulatory law and regulatory agency in American government.
Facebook, Twitter, Google aren’t publishers, they are social media backbones in the same fashion that railroads transportation backbones. They are abusing their position to act as censors in what has become the public’s main public square for political speech. They are going to end up being forced to offer equal access to all comers using the same legal reasoning that regulates RRs and Common Carriers.