FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Post by alisonkisk » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #333

mindcrime wrote: post #283

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Can you stop your real-world friends from divulging your friendship to 3rd parties? Would you even presume to have any standing to do so? I think a case could be made that knowledge that belongs to A and B equally and that neither has standing to preclude the other from sharing that fact. Of course they could both mutually agree to such an arrangement ahead of time, but outside of such an agreement, I have a hard tim…

So there aren't things known between my friends and I that we wouldn't want divulged to a third-party?

Post by aerovistae » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 1:13 AM UTC

gamblor956 wrote: post #299

crazygringo wrote: post #199

Honestly, while I have my doubts about this succeeding, it nevertheless feels like the big tech suit most likely to succeed. Amazon promoting its own brands isn't much different from a supermarket offering its own brand items. Apple isn't a monopoly in phones because of Android. And Google's search is so inherently tied to selling ads as a business model that separating them is a difficult argument -- plus search com…

Amazon promoting its own brands isn't much different from a supermarket offering its own brand items. Amazon promoting its own brands is completely different from a supermarket offering its own brand items. You're confusing a bazaar with a retail store; the two are nothing alike legally or economically. The supermarket pays for everything on its store shelves (except, rarely, for certain new products on a consignment…

Post by TylerE » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 1:14 AM UTC

mthoms wrote: post #433

TylerE wrote: post #380

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The exchanges tend to "go down for maintenance" on any big price swing.

Evidence? I've been in crypto a long time and have never experienced this. I'm not saying it's never happened, but implying it's some sort of repeating pattern is simply false.

Post by p1necone » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 1:17 AM UTC

saddlerustle wrote: post #222

ghufran_syed wrote: post #155

I feel like instead of pushing for the companies to separate, congress should pass laws mandating [adversarial interoperability]( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera... ). Then the data (including the social graph) really would belong to the users, and facebook would have to compete with multiple other “social network clients” that would rapidly emerge. Facebook would lose some monopoly profi…

There's no way to provide access to the social graph in a privacy preserving way. It's not okay to allow a third party to access the data your friends have shared with you without your friends consenting. Unencumbered API access to the social graph is exactly what led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and promising to restrict API access was part of Facebook's settlement with the FTC.

Post by julienb_sea » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 1:19 AM UTC

apozem wrote: post #62

> The complaint also alleges that Facebook, over many years, has imposed anticompetitive conditions on third-party software developers’ access to valuable interconnections to its platform, such as the application programming interfaces (“APIs”) that allow the developers’ apps to interface with Facebook. In particular, Facebook allegedly has made key APIs available to third-party applications only on the condition tha…