I have a great non governmental solution to facebook. I just never use it, and dump any mailings they send me in the trash. Its dead to me, as the shark tank shark says.

Interesting that the left complains thta Trump is hitler when the things that the left is doing are right out of Hitler's playbook. I guess its psychological projection on the part of the leftists

The AR letter exposed a landmark anti trust case against Alcoa in te 60 I think. In summary Alcoa was fined for doing a great job of mining and manufacturing aluminum. It was forced by the looters to fund a competitor called American Aluminum which promptly failed.
The anti trust laws are a ploy that give the statists an excuse to pounce on any business that does not pay protection money like Microsoft in the 80s. Microsoft worked it out and got a full quiver of K street gumbags and all the threats to break it up vanished.
Any Gulch er that wants to have uncle sam intervene in the affairs of a Legitimate company providing a voluntary service needs to " Check your premises" as Ms R said.
PS I deplore Face Book and all the make me famous garbage going on but the idea that the government can fix it is really really dumb

Their shift from being a universal platform for communications to one designed to promote specific ideologies generates a market opportunity. Instead of trying to get the government to "break up the monopoly" someone should create competition.

TANSTAAFL

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/t...

The 2nd thing I thought of after reading your post was how the "social media" are extensions of unconstitutional federal invasion of privacy.

Facebook formed the same day The pentagon halted its "Lifelog project". https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakeni...
Googles technology was funded and developed. by US.

Google: seeded by the Pentagon
In 1994?—?the same year the Highlands Forum was founded under the stewardship of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the ONA, and DARPA?—?two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service. Brin and Page had performed their work with funding from the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency programme of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and DARPA.

But that’s just one side of the story.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...

Jyes

Sounds like either sarcasm or fascism to me. ;^)

Monopolies? Just because there are no popular alternatives doesn't make Facebook, YouTube or Instagram a monopoly on social media any more than Reardon Metal did on the steel industry.

FB, YT, and/or Instagram has every right to allow or disallow whatever it wants on their equipment, no?

FYI https://fossbytes.com/best-facebook-a...

Anti trust laws to break up these monopolies may be the remedy. It is in the public interest.