Time to break up the power social media conglomerates

[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.

[LogicIsForSquares]

@tiamat63 said:

Awful lot of comrades in this here thread. 

Reagan is spinning in his grave knowing so many older Americans are spreading communism.

[LogicIsForSquares]

@oldbrownsfan said:

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...?

Eh convert her to communism.

[Clevfan4life]

@logicisforsquares said:

Eh convert her to communism.

this thread needs a power track to go with it.....reach down ur grab ur nuts boyz.....

[calfoxwc]

@logicisforsquares said:

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.

potato chip companies decide elections in favor of the left?

huh. where did you get your information?

[OldBrownsFan]

@clevfan4life said:

Cleve since I am socialist communist that would make you what since you are taking the opposite position?  ....a right winger now? 

[LogicIsForSquares]

@calfoxwc said:

potato chip companies decide elections in favor of the left?

huh. where did you get your information?

If someone only gets their info from Facebook then no amount of regulation will help them. Dumb people have been getting duped since the dawn of man. 

[LogicIsForSquares]

@oldbrownsfan said:

Cleve since I am socialist communist that would make you what?  ....a right winger now?  

We should consult the Politburo to see what they think we should make of this.

[OldBrownsFan]

@logicisforsquares said:

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.

You are missing the point this is not even a conservative or liberal issue. The facts are new start ups are way down and the reason is big tech and that doesn't just affect conservatives it affects everyone.

[OldBrownsFan]

@logicisforsquares said:

We should consult the Politburo to see what they think we should make of this.

That would be better than letting antifa know about Cleve's conversion to the right...