@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

It’s just a common theme in this discord, young internet dudes think they know better than educated professionals

oh this ones nice

And just call them lefties

You're being a little bitch though my age doesn't affect the validity of my points

Bit like you praising Tony Blair's domestic policies when you weren't born yet, eh, PeP?

You're argument is literally I'm better then you LOL

Glad I make you feel threatened

Anyway, @PureEvilPie, I'm sure you're aware of *who* composes these lobbies as well.

Facebook buys up competitors.
So does google.

Yes

@Scale_e Yeah, but preventing that BAD

And when you have unlimited money, you get to do that

They’ve got a tonne of IP they’ve bought up and don’t ever intend to use.

Not really a free market anymore is it?

My argument wasn't ever that I know better it was that their goals often disregard economics in favour of social goals

Samaritan

They can’t do it forever.

I’m not better then you

Eventually they’ll fall.

I said it’s stupid to just call regulators lefties

Advertisers are already sick of facebooks shit.

Because they put in controls over the markets

I'm pro regulation

They’re hemorrhaging cash.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with buying out a competitor, but that's where the one facet of intervention I do agree with comes in: trust busting.

I'm sorry but I think you misread the situation

Which regulations are you pro?

I'd have to think about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQwBFbNm1A