Having been one of the early targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have advocated
for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. It is good to
see establishment outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and National Review coming to the same conclusion, or at least asking the same questions.We had to go back to the drawing board in our lawsuit against these social media giant. The basis of our suit was challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) under the First Amendment, which provides immunity from lawsuits to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, thereby permitting these social media giants to engage in government-sanctioned censorship and discriminatory business practices free from legal challenge.
Facebook and Google take in roughly half of all Internet ad revenue.
In the U.S., Alphabet Inc.’s Google drives 89% of internet search; 95% of young adults on the internet use a Facebook Inc. product; and Amazon.com Inc. now accounts for 75% of electronic book sales. Those firms that aren’t monopolists are duopolists: Google and Facebook absorbed 63% of online ad spending last year; Google and Apple Inc. provide 99% of mobile phone operating systems; while Apple and Microsoft Corp. supply 95% of desktop operating systems.Please read entire article here: https://pamelageller.com/2018/01/urgent-case-anti-trust-legislation-facebook-google.html/
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