Core services should be open to all regardless of wealth

I can see a clear LGBT presence, but Islamic pressure? Don't be absurd. 50 years out, they'll still be 0.2% of the population.

And, yes, that is according to their current birth-rates.

That isn't accounting for declines in migration, either.

@Eccles None yet. But those sectors are very new.
If the government does nothing, eventually competition will rise and Facebook/google will fall. Or they’ll adapt.

That's just bollocks, Scale_e

Your attempts to evoke hysteria, leading to an inconsistent application of my principles, resorting to limiting self-organizing forces in my country by electing someone not far off from the fascist mark, isn't going to work on me, Tyche.

If, however m, the government steps in and regulates social media, we’ll be stuck with Facebook/google

I do not reject my self-regulatory values.

@Jeremy The Mexicans do.

As actors in any sector get larger with a bigger market share, the barriers to entry become higher by means of entropy, and the ability for the dominant player to crush them only grows

Cough *Myspace* cough

Better services came along

MySpace died

myspace existed before the widespread adoption of the internet

I don't see a problem with regulation in and of itself it is often that the people regulating are leftists and not only do they not understand economics they disregard them in the name of their greater goal

I'll second that, @Scale_e.

Better services will come along and Facebook will die.
Facebook is fucking *desperate* for big daddy government to step in because they know their days are numbered.

social media is a slightly unhelpful example because a single player being dominant is one of it's biggest selling point

They’re buying up every competitor that comes along in a desperate attempt to stave off extinction.

It’s going to happen.

Yes, all these better services than Facebook all lining up to take them down, lol

hm what an interesting article ive found if old

Sam you think you understand economics better than those who work and produce the regulations?

You’re just 18 years old

Get over yourself

...or uncle same will regulate them. And they’ll be with us forever.

Facebook doesn't want the government to step in and fuck them the boot in the door argument is correct but it doesn't apply in this specific case

Uncledaddy

@PureEvilPie Why are you so salty all of a sudden, Imao

I’m not daft

Dude UK politics is lit right now

Salty*

If you majored in economics, @PureEvilPie, you'd learn all the regulators have no knowledge in the industries they're regulating, and thus they listen to the industry lobby.

Attorney general putting everyone in their box

Facebook is fkn desperate for regulation.

there is no need for regulation of the internet because there is no reason for people to not leave those sites

Lol, economics majors are taught how to form lobbies.

Facebook don't buy up competitors, they buy up ancilliary companies to broaden their power