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The anti trust laws are a ploy that give the statists an excuse to pounce on any business that does not pay protection money like Microsoft in the 80s. Microsoft worked it out and got a full quiver of K street gumbags and all the threats to break it up vanished.
Any Gulch er that wants to have uncle sam intervene in the affairs of a Legitimate company providing a voluntary service needs to " Check your premises" as Ms R said.
PS I deplore Face Book and all the make me famous garbage going on but the idea that the government can fix it is really really dumb
Googles technology was funded and developed. by US.
In 1994?—?the same year the Highlands Forum was founded under the stewardship of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the ONA, and DARPA?—?two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service. Brin and Page had performed their work with funding from the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency programme of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and DARPA.
But that’s just one side of the story.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...
FB, YT, and/or Instagram has every right to allow or disallow whatever it wants on their equipment, no?
FYI https://fossbytes.com/best-facebook-a...