> The brand comes to life in the context of people, cultures, communities and relationships. What does this even mean? What kind of human could even write such a sentence?
It's all fluff mixed with virtue signalling.
As usual.
Designing the Facebook Company Brand
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
The USPS is my go-to example of why “Net Neutrality” is a requirement for communication.
The USPS mail service is frankly bullshit. It exists to spam the hell out of you.
it actually exists to guarantee service of court documents and government records. Without it the courts and government couldn't function properly. it's so vital that the USPS has their own police force that punishes mail crime. Once I got a piece of mail about a postal worker who stole a $20 gift card in route to me. She got sentenced to several years in jail. I'd sooner screw with the IRS than the postal service.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anti-trust laws are there for economic reasons, ie, monopolies preventing competition leaving society worse-off as a whole than can be gained from efficiencies of a single organization. It also typically requires proof of anti-competitive behaviour, beyond just being the biggest in the market. A lot of companies dominate their markets but don't engage in overt anti-competitive behaviour. I don't think they've ever be…
Your last sentence does not seem right to me, and it also seems to be phrased in a disingenuous way. "punishing companies for not serving some greater democratic service" is a very weird way to describe a legitimate worry about consolidation of private power (which, by the way, has a very long history). Of course, healthy competition & pricing is a core issue here (duh). But power, in all its forms, is also a key iss…
The founding fathers were also very opposed to a two party system.
Re: Designing the Facebook Company Brand
#224Although a post about updated branding may seem benign, this is, I believe, a response to critics who believe the company should be broken up. For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/opinion/facebook-antitrus... https://www.wired.com/story/tim-wu-explains-why-facebook-bro... https://www.cnet.com/news/can-facebook-be-broken-up-what-you... Facebook is hoping that by differentiating its company brand from its fl…
Why is the government itching to break up tech companies? I feel like it's a bad idea for them to get involved at all.
It's because FB has enormous power in influencing who becomes part of the government.
Keeping aside the question whether FB should be broken up or not, having such power is incredibly dangerous. And they brought it upon themselves, by making a big push for being the primary conduit for all aspects of people's lives, Friends, Family, Events, News, Opinion, Shopping, etc.
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#225In my experience, the more time the word "clarity" is used, the less there is.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
The USPS is my go-to example of why “Net Neutrality” is a requirement for communication.
The USPS mail service is frankly bullshit. It exists to spam the hell out of you.
How narrow-sighted can you be?! The USPS is the latest incarnation in a lineage of postal services that go back centuries and that for many generations served as a neutral, transparent, reliable, and capillary means of allowing epistolary contact between individuals.
Note: I’m not American, I’m not in the USA, but this applies to most postal services worldwide.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
The USPS mail service is frankly bullshit. It exists to spam the hell out of you.
How narrow-sighted can you be?! The USPS is the latest incarnation in a lineage of postal services that go back centuries and that for many generations served as a neutral, transparent, reliable, and capillary means of allowing epistolary contact between individuals. Note: I’m not American, I’m not in the USA, but this applies to most postal services worldwide.
USPS disallows 3rd party Mail aggregation and sorting / scanning services.
Why? The biggest USPS customer base (unsolicited bulk mail) got pissed.
If you saw how much spam I get via snail mail maybe you’d understand a little more.
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Still got nothing on Pepsi https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Any context? Is it a real document or a parody?
This is real. My personal theory has always been that they decided to capitalize on the Obama For America campaign branding, typography, etc — and then made this doc as a kind of “parallel reconstruction” of how they got there.
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But antitrust remedies are all about single companies, aren't they?
I'm not sure how that is relevant to what I said. Can you explain?
Maybe I'm not understanding what you're defining as the "aggravating factor," but I'm interpreting it to mean that FB, IG, WA are seen as separate entities while Google properties like Docs, Keep, Calendar, etc. are seen as products under a Google umbrella.
If so, I don't think it's a distinction with a difference, as antitrust attention is going to focus on the umbrella, regardless of its name. I'd say your FB example has already been dealt with in the horizontal instance of Internet Explorer, while the Google collective is more vertical. Different flavors of umbrella, but that's what gets dismantled.
IANAEconomist, but hopefully my point comes through.
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For you then, I believe the above comment to be not only uncompelling but also disingenuous
I mean, I personally agree with said comment. Would love to hear your perspective beyond "this comment is wrong".
This isn't a matter of right or wrong. Moreover that's not what I've expressed. The comment hasn't garnered any attention from anyone discussing this topic seriously and I should follow suit
BR