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    Forum Member S. Cane's Avatar
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    Facebook facing antitrust lawsuit

    Facebook antitrust lawsuit: Dozens of states and the FTC sue company for alleged anticompetitive behavior - CNN

    I've been thinking about this lately. Many social media platforms have merged and crossed over into messengers. I think FB could see that coming.

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    Re: Facebook facing antitrust lawsuit

    As a tech professional, this will be interesting to watch. Historically, antitrust suits against tech companies don't have much impact/effect.
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    Re: Facebook facing antitrust lawsuit

    I'm not exactly sure what they expect to accomplish, apart from hopefully shaking down FB for a few billions of pocket change. I mean, do they expect to break it up into a bunch of baby facebooks?
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    Re: Facebook facing antitrust lawsuit

    I think they mainly want to take away Instagram and WhatsApp, which at least a few years ago was a much bigger deal than in the US.

    Is Facebook the Standard Oil of its day in the social media world? There's Shapchat and others that are doing well. I hate monopolies when viable competition is squeezed out, but what exactly has Zb done wrong in this particular case? Those are actual questions and not a point of view.
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