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Since when is government good at anything?

It's simple: if you don't like Facebook, don't use it's products. It's not the proper role of government to interfere in private business.



You seem to imagine that peoples' concerns about Facebook are in the context of a bilateral relationship.

I'm not a customer of Facebook. The customers of Facebook do not feel any obligation towards me, and I would like the government to force them to operate under more constraints.


Since when is the government good at anything, says somebody using government created computer network.


Government breaking up AT&T had pretty good outcomes, IMHO.


Really? You think AT&T and Verizon are the pinnacle of good corporate behavior?


In the ensuing 35+ years, a new anticompetitive situation has developed around different technology and different shared resources. Should we judge the solution to a problem by whether more problems of the same class arise independently for future generations?




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