Kudos to Letitia James for Taking on Facebook

Facebook (FB) and its creator and boss, Mark Zuckerberg, are on the ropes….again. You know all about this guy and his giant tech outfit. We’ve been calling them out for years. But before we go into why we feel they should be finally broken up, we’d like to give you some insight from common, everyday users about why they left FB: “The most liberating thing I have done recently is delete my Facebook page (they don’t make it easy to do so.)

It immediately removes so much negativity from your life. I’ll miss seeing some baby pictures but it’s a small price to pay for eliminating the ugly politics of so many people and the anger I would feel at people I once liked and respected when they posted their garbage. I feel free!” Another griper: “I quit Facebook in absolute disgust about a year ago. I was sick and tired of everything I came to understand that FB is, which is a tracker of my personal life and then selling what it learned about me to people who want to sell me something.” These were personal comments, not legal ones for breaking up Facebook.

This past Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission and 48 (out of 50) attorneys general filed a formal, legal complaint contending that FB employs a “buy-or bury strategy that thwarts competition and harms both users and advertisers.” How could any knowledgeable person disagree? Venture capitalists are so fearful of FB’s criminal like tactics, they just won’t fund startups that Mr. Z might view as competition. This thereby stifles any innovation and competitors in the field. You, we and all other common users of FB don’t have choices. We have no options even if we’re turned off by their privacy policies, their endless ads, or the enormous disinformation on its platform. There is no competition.

Back in 2012 Zuckerberg payed $1 billion for up the up and coming competitor, Instagram. In 2014 Facebook took over WhatsApp, another potential rival for a whopping $18 billion. If Zuckerberg sees a threat to his obvious monopoly, he just goes out to buy it. End of story about the Facebook strategy of crushing competition. As NY’s Attorney General, Letitia James, one of the current plaintiffs so eloquently put it: “Instead of competing on the merits, FB used its power to suppress competition so it could take advantage of users and make billions by converting personal data into a cash cow.”

We hope that FB and the other media giants, such as Google, now up against the government’s ropes, finally are taken down for the count. We are all uneasy with the power that these corporations wield. Now that the 2020 elections are over we’ve scarily experienced their power openly displayed in the political ring. They are too big. Cut them down at the knees before they end up controlling our lives…..any further.

It should also be noted that over the years FB has targeted the Jewish Voice for shadow banning for absolutely no explicable reason. Moreover, the social media giant has done everything in its power to intentionally suppress speech the kind of speech that not comport to its liberal, far-left standards.