Who would go down without a fight if the government tried to break up your business? Just the logical next step of escalation.
Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook
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#22This a little like waving the red flag at the snorting bull. Not a lot of upside.
Could the message be to the other bull? (wallstreet)
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#24From someone with zero knowledge of this process of breaking up large companies (example: Instagram and Facebook), how would that work exactly? Obviously the company would split and become two entities - but what then? How do the finances work? Each business becomes independently run and cannot affiliate with each other? Are there protections against "freebie" services, for example Facebook providing free services/data sharing to Instagram where it may be a paid feature for other companies?
Re: Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can you even claim that "Facebook" is deeply democratic/liberal? You could say the same about HN, and I've seen quite a few sharply pro-conservative comments posted here. Anecdotally, the amount of far-right loose-with-facts garbage being posted to Facebook was the primary reason I stopped using it.
I think this misconception stems primarily from the 2008 Obama campaign where groundbreaking work was done directly by Obama's campaign staff using social media for outreach and organizing. This was largely driven by open and direct channels of communication to Facebook staff and the hiring of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his work with the campaign. In retrospect I think the relationships built between the De…
I think people for some reason overlook the historical coincidence that the Obama campaign came along only two years after Facebook was open to the public.
I don't think that any other explanation of why they are associated can be meaningful, when it was the first presidential campaign that could work with them, and the last one where it could be groundbreaking.