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(11-10-2018 01:58 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

[...] You read the tech journals and these people are INSANE.

Citations/examples, please. This is like a comment about the quality of girls in a city that posts no pics.

Quote:

The average American uses eight different apps to communicate with their friends[...]

Zuckerberg

I am not really buying the argument that a single tech company is capable of unilaterally choking off the flow of information in a way that would affect the entire market. There's always going to be a different platform people can go to if they don't like the one they're on, or if it bans them.



Facebook is both a publisher and a platform.

A publisher is like a newspaper, and they can choose to say or not to say whatever they want.

A platform is like a bar, a private club or an amusement park.

Management reserves the right to refuse service and cancel your admission for any reason (in many cases)

Facebook is exactly like the classified ads section of a hard-copy newspaper. The public can get coverage, but the company owns the distribution privately, so they get to decide who they will and won't cover.