or they could just open up API + research options....but the ethical board - completely
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you see ...it's really v straightforward. Like Greece they should just put academics in charge ....oh wait
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Only solution is real competition, so power isn't so concentrated. Which means antitrust.
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but here's the rub - network externalities apply here, in some ways it might be a quasi natural monopoly
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But...utilities are vital to functioning of society and economy. World would communicate fine without FB.
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Alas. There are huge chunks of the world where Facebook is the public sphere and it's "the internet."
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If it did not have such quasi-monopoly power due to network effects, I'd be a lot less interested.
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I can never get any friend to switch messaging apps, for example. I'm stuck on what the world uses.
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Historically, antitrust is the best method we have for preventing the dominance of communication empires.
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That is historically true. Though now the dominance is global and not as reliant on cables in ground.
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Can we talk offline? I admire your work hugely. And we're working on similar stuff.
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If that's me, to absolutely. Happy to talk! zeynep@technosociology.org.
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