Perspectives: Facebook Sued Over Potential Antitrust Violations
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From the Center
The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust CaseIMAGINE A POPULAR social network that takes privacy super seriously. By default, your posts are visible only to people in your real-life community. Not only does the company not use tracking cookies, but it promises it never will. It even announces that future changes to the privacy policy will be put to a vote by users before implementation.
It’s hard to imagine now, but such a social network once existed. It was called Facebook. The company’s journey from privacy-focused startup to mass surveillance platform is at the heart of the...
From the Right
Facebook Acquisitions Benefitted Its Employees, Sellers, and Consumers. Where Is the Harm?The claim by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 48 state attorneys general that Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp qualifies as anticompetitive behavior foolishly focuses on the motivations of the world’s largest social-media firm and ignores what those acquisitions have meant for consumers.
In the filings, the FTC and the states allege that Facebook snatched up the picture-sharing and messaging apps to prevent them from becoming a competitive threat. Perhaps it did. Maybe Facebook was indeed worried about being displaced as the market leader. But what does its motivation...
From the Left
When it Comes to Facebook, the Need for Action Has Been Obvious for a Long TimeIt’s about time, even if it’s been a very long 22 years.
It was 1998 when Microsoft finally landed in the cross hairs of the federal government, when the Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general alleged in an antitrust lawsuit that the software giant had abused its market power to crush competition. It was the last time the government took meaningful action against the unfettered rise of a tech behemoth.
The Big Tech companies that have sprouted up since the Microsoft case have been treated by government as if...
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