Meta's Victory Over the Federal Trade Commission Shows the Market Moves Faster Than Antitrust Enforcement
The decision ends the witch hunt begun under the first Trump administration.
The decision ends the witch hunt begun under the first Trump administration.
"They suspected the house was being used as a school," notes the Times, in a moment of high drama, "and they were right."
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Mark Zuckerberg's donations haven't stopped the Federal Trade Commission from going after his company.
What Elizabeth Warren has achieved.
The president opposes the tech "oligarchy" because it has stopped listening to him.
Anyone discussing free speech should at least try to get this right.
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It’s the latest company to step back from dangerous alliances with political factions.
Mark Zuckerberg has had it with these people.
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What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?
Officials pursue an anti-liberty agenda through unofficial pressure and foreign regulators.
The Meta CEO says his platforms will not blindly obey the bureaucrats again.
"None of these laws prevent kids from viewing anything. They just prevent kids from posting," argues Shoshana Weissmann.
Republicans and Democrats are using emotional manipulation to push an agenda of censorship.
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Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Critics have said for years that Facebook is a monopoly that can only be killed by federal regulation. Meanwhile, the platform bleeds users, its stock price is plummeting, and it just announced its first-ever round of layoffs.
Facebook's rebrand signals that the widely scrutinized company retains lofty ambitions.
A business model where outrage is exploited for clicks describes both social media and the news media.
The mainstream media's fear of Mark Zuckerberg is not supported by the documents.
"Maybe one billionaire with a penchant for destroying democracies shouldn’t be allowed to own so much of the internet," says the representative from New York.
The site is clearly in trouble and the government doesn't need to step in.
Still, Facebook should not have allowed its VIPs to flout the rules it claimed applied to everyone.
Corporations can afford robots. Their competitors often cannot.
Facebook can't kill, jail, or tax you. It can only stop you from posting on Facebook.
Even minor tweaks to the law could shore up Mark Zuckerberg's dominance.
But what one side likes, the other side hates. There's no way Twitter and Facebook can appease them both.
His brutal response to the protests against his anti-Muslim initiative reveal him as a Hindu nationalist, not a reformer.
People need to stop blaming their problems on Facebook and Twitter.
Another show trial for Facebook's beleaguered CEO
Stanford Law professor and former Google attorney Daphne Keller says tech giants are facing pressure from governments worldwide to clamp down on content.
Be afraid as more journalists and politicians start calling for stronger policing of online speech.
Abroad, legislators are in the mood to theatrically punish social media companies. CEOs shouldn’t play along.
Facebook would prosper in a less robust market.
How established businesses use government to limit competition.
He's got his reasons, but they all suck. And will accelerate Facebook's decline as a destination in cyberspace.
Facebook and the end of the open Internet era
New film The Creepy Line argues that tech giants sometimes silence conservatives and try to steer America left.
Reason's Robby Soave and Mike Riggs debate whether Mark Zuckerberg's should de-platform haters such as Alex Jones and Infowars to improve the user experience.
Censorship is "nefarious." Unless it's being carried out by the government.
Silencing hate isn't the same thing as squelching it.
Congress doesn't have the best track record on privacy rights.
HBO's hit sitcom about the tech industry lights a real-world path to a better internet.
"You used language of safety and protection earlier. We see this happening on college campuses all across the country."
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