And yet we know it's not determinative as evidenced by Facebook killing MySpace and the fact that Facebook keeps buying up other social media companies it views as a threat.The network effect is a real thing. The value of social media platforms are not easily duplicated technology or policies, but the largely locked in user base. This seems rather difficult to dispute.
Understanding the basics of Network Effects — The Power of the Platform
For platform businesses, positive network effects are the main source of value creation and competitive advantage. I tried to dig deep into…medium.com
False. People are typing things into Twitter and then Twitter is then using its facilities to broadcast this to a global audience.
False. People are typing things into Twitter and then Twitter is then using its facilities to broadcast this to a global audience.
Government intrusion on editorial decisions on what to broadcast or not was unanimously held to violate the first amendment.
In addition SCOTUS has recognized the first amendment right of a corporation to not publish speech it disagrees with.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (1986) established the right of a corporation as a publisher to refuse to print messages with which it does not agree.www.mtsu.edu
As you can see what you're proposing is blatantly unconstitutional.
Facebook was always a do everything company, and gobbling up new emerging areas, is the best way to keep doing everything. Ever hear the phrase "only the paranoid survive"? Instagram probably wasn't a threat, but having a paranoid view, and adding them to Facebook, grows Facebook.
Facebook is several times larger than Myspace ever was, and Myspace was MBA'd to death, while FB was doing everything:
"There was a period of time where, if they had just copied Facebook rapidly, I think they would have been Facebook. The network effects, the scale effects were enormous. There was so much power there."Myspace Collapse: How The Social Network Fell Apart
Myspace Collapse: How The Social Network Fell Apartwww.huffpost.com
This is based on the assumption that Twitter must be bad now. People sure seem to like it! What if there isn't a 'good Twitter' to make because Twitter is already good?
False - section 230.
If you repealed section 230, Twitter (and anything else like it, including Anandtech Forums) could be held liable for the content it hosts.
Well sure but that's a terrible idea. Seems equally likely Twitter would either relocate to another country where they can escape US liability or just shut down to salvage whatever value was remaining before bankruptcy.
The POTUS has much more than words. He can literally dismantle environmental protection of the planet:
The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List. (Published 2021)
The Trump administration has dismantled nearly 100 policies focused on clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals, and left more than a dozen rollbacks unfinished. Here’s how they add up.www.nytimes.com
What does neutral mean?
yes if one is willing to risk the legal liability (Twitter should do nothing)
I said I was more concerned with his destroying the planet via POTUS power than with his tweets, while he was was POTUS.
Now your argument is that he got into power because of his tweets??
That seems to be goalpost move.
When he was president he had MUCH more power than tweeting.
lol - no.
First, all available evidence is that Twitter is neutral in moderation. Second, 'neutral' as decided by who? Is the idea that if they are found non-neutral at some point by a court or whatever that they become liable for all the various shit that was posted on there? That would again, lead to them fleeing to another country or shutting down entirely.
www.theverge.com
And yet the world's richest man buying it Twitter is ....somehow not this?
'we had to destroy the village to save it'.
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