Time to break up the power social media conglomerates

[OldBrownsFan]

@clevfan4life said:

u realize being bought out was a personal decision from them right? no one can force u to sell. If u started ur own obfbook.com....then sold out to fb ir whomever... thats YOUR FUCKING CALL. 

Bought out or crushed I posted..If you have a product to sell and are buying advertising time/spaceI doubt if you will go with the small company that reaches thousands versus the large one that reaches millions..

[Clevfan4life]

@oldbrownsfan said:

Bought out or crushed I posted..

"crushed"? because they cant compete? how else does fb "crush" the competition? is there a digital supply chain fb is monopolizing? 

dear god what am i talking to....

[OldBrownsFan]

As tech companies get richer, is it 'game over' for startups?

"Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/20/tech-startups-facebook-amazon-google-apple

"dear god what am i talking to"

Please read the article and learn....

[Clevfan4life]

maybe digital patent rights need rexamined.....ill admit its a grey area. Did not realize how much of other products facebook was cloning. My issue with FB is privacy violations...thats why i dont use fb. What ur complsining about tho is the histori al "american way" of doing business. That shit has bern going on for a century and there was zero issue with blue blood american compsnies like GE, kellog, MS, Appke etc,etc......who did all this and more. 

But it never ceases to amaze me the power over the markets that u conservatives want to give govt "when it suits you". Then in the next breathe govt can do no good, should be minimized etc etc. When the EPA comes down pn companies outting shit in our waters....its kiberal govt overreach.

u conservatives are completely lost...there is no redemption for u. When u give more fucks about a ridiculous wanker company lije fb who's service u are completely free to not use.....over companies who's manufacturing methods shit in the very air and water we need..........theres just no hope fir u anymore. To be clear id like nothing more than for people to wake up one day and realize omg social media is a mind fuck..

[LogicIsForSquares]

Comrades, we must regulate it all for the good of the Soviet Union. Next we go after Nike! 

[LogicIsForSquares]

@oldbrownsfan said:

Wait for it....you will be called a socialist now..?

Socialists do as they do, Comrade OBF.

[LogicIsForSquares]

@clevfan4life said:

"crushed"? because they cant compete? how else does fb "crush" the competition? is there a digital supply chain fb is monopolizing? 

dear god what am i talking to....

Conservatives can’t compete so they want participation awards and want the game changed for them. 

[LogicIsForSquares]

Social media alternatives exist, use them. Vlogging alternatives exist, use them.

[OldBrownsFan]

@logicisforsquares said:

Conservatives can’t compete so they want participation awards and want the game changed for them. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/20/tech-startups-facebook-amazon-google-apple

[Clevfan4life]

@logicisforsquares said:

Conservatives can’t compete so they want participation awards and want the game changed for them. 

ill admit some of the stuff about fb copying startups is just exassperating.....but then y'all better be ready to apply principle in the matter. What FB is doing is currently 100% legal evidently.....so laws have to be changed. 

[LogicIsForSquares]

@oldbrownsfan said:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/20/tech-startups-facebook-amazon-google-apple

Oh so big firms that already have in house development teams and large scale marketing teams make adjacent products to edge out smaller firms? Shocking. This is a tale as old as industry. If you can’t market your product it won’t do as well as a large firm with the means to capitalize on trends. There are alternatives but conservatives don’t use them because that requires effort.

[LogicIsForSquares]

Or we depend on big government to force businesses to do our bidding because we are lazy. But yeah small government, economic freedom, blah blah.

[OldBrownsFan]

@logicisforsquares said:

Oh so big firms that already have in house development teams and large scale marketing teams make adjacent products to edge out smaller firms? Shocking. This is a tale as old as industry. If you can’t market your product it won’t do as well as a large firm with the means to capitalize on trends. There are alternatives but conservatives don’t use them because that requires effort.

That is easy enough to say but in the real world Big Tech has gotten so big that other start up companies are not able to compete. They are big enough to crush competitors and that is what they are doing. You can put your head in the sand but the facts are there.

[Clevfan4life]

@logicisforsquares said:

Or we depend on big government to force businesses to do our bidding because we are lazy. But yeah small government, economic freedom, blah blah.

so logic u must be some kind of flaming open borders 90% tax rate liberal right?

[LogicIsForSquares]

@clevfan4life said:

so logic u must be some kind of flaming open borders 90% tax rate liberal right?

Hell no. I am for economic freedom (unless the business does something legal that I don’t like) and small government (unless the big government enforces the rules selective in a way I like)! MAGA

[Clevfan4life]

@logicisforsquares said:

Hell no. I am for economic freedom (unless the business does something legal that I don’t like) and small government (unless the big government enforces the rules selective in a way I like)! MAGA

thats the spirit....bravo!!!!!

[tiamat63]

Awful lot of comrades in this here thread. 

[OldBrownsFan]

I got to scat. Mrs. OBF is laying down the law. I have to take her out to lunch. She has become quite the dictator since she has become one of them deplorable Trump supporters...?

[Clevfan4life]

@tiamat63 said:

Awful lot of comrades in this here thread. 

[LogicIsForSquares]

@oldbrownsfan said:

That is easy enough to say but in the real world Big Tech has gotten so big that other start up companies are not able to compete. They are big enough to crush competitors and that is what they are doing. You can put your head in the sand but the facts are there.

So startups just don’t exist then? I mean those companies crush everyone so not a single one exists. 

Any other luxuries you wish to control, Comrade? I am sure a local potato chip company may not be able to sell as well as Lays so we better level the playing field.