This seems like…a terrible argument. These are the finest lawyers in America? Lol lawyers.
“Facebook lacked the business acumen and technical talent to survive the transition to mobile,” Holly Vedova, the acting director of the bureau of competition at the agency, said in a statement. “After failing to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat.”
Like, isn’t it undisputed that the transition to mobile is one thing they definitely did a great job navigating? The problem with the original complaint was they didn’t precisely define the market or demonstrate economic harm, and they’ve…still not done that? Also they very legally bought competitors, with the express approval of regulators!
Facebook isn’t awful because it’s a monopoly, it’s awful because nobody will regulate them, most importantly Congress.
So I’ve been watching a lot of youtube lately, IDK why, its pretty addicting and if you shape your algorithm by being careful about what videos you click on while logged into your google account/not incognito its really not bad right, and I do that.
Today I look at my feed and I’m presented with a stream of Jomboy, Dark Souls, a band I like, Jordan Peterson, Bo Burnam skits
You know, all things I’m super into and like a lot.
YouTube recommends Jordan Peterson to almost everyone as far as I can tell, it must have so much traction with young guys they just give it to everyone.
My TikTok went to Jordan Peterson videos pretty quickly after I started using it. I would snap block any user that posts his videos and they all seemed to go away.
