Break Them Up

7 Replies to “Break Them Up”

1. I’m getting more than a little tired of the shenanigans of Facebook and Google. I never have been on or used Facebook and now I’m going to pull the pin on Google. The latter won’t be that difficult; I’ve noticed, especially lately, how skewed the results are.

2. Hey, talk to the bitter clingers at YouTube, Twitter, Instagram,…

3. Gradual aligning of policies…central planning to the rescue.

   https://sputniknews.com/russia/201909201076851639-russian-parliament-to-prepare-amendments-on-responsibility-for-google-facebook—lawmaker/

   MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On Thursday, Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said that it fined Google about $1,560 for overspreading illegal ads for financial services.

   The lower chamber of the Russian parliament intends to draft amendments that would make it possible to hold Facebook and Google responsible for breaching Russian laws, chairman of the State Duma commission on foreign meddling in Russian affairs said Friday.

   “Apparently, the entire agenda is being shaped abroad, in the United States, there is no legally important office here [in Russia] that we can talk to. So there is need to work out legal initiatives so that such giants would be held responsible according to Russian laws”, Vasilii Piskarev told reporters.

4. Delete your account(s).

5. An absolute load of sh*t. No one is grabbing anything except the government. Google, Facebook, et alia have simply done a superb job of creating products consumers want, end of story. There’s really nothing else to it.

   1. For once, the Moby is right. This is nothing more than Mom & Pop shops complaining that Walmart is better at selling commodity household goods than they are. TheChive is hurting for money because their stock -in-trade, juvenile lad humour, is being provided all over the Internet by people who have made shitposting an art form. He doesn’t want to charge a subscription fee because blah blah free and open Internet. He’s going out of business because he makes bad management decisions and he’s blaming FANG because it’s easy.

      I found this line rich:

      he claimed that the Duopoly had not only formed an unfair monopoly to squeeze publishers and “squash competition”

      Since Google and Facebook aren’t in even remotely the same line of business, it’s hard to see how they could form a monopoly.

6. For me, problem solved. I have never, and never intend to use, Bookface, Chapsnap, Tweeter or Instagrammar (or whatever they are called). I have also long stopped using Google as a search engine and I refuse to buy an Android cell phone (I still use a six year old Blackberry). Screw them all.