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What ‘Facebook vs. The Rest’ means for you
The Facebook thing?
It’s hard.
In the first instance, I should say that, at the time of writing, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has blocked access to almost all content on The Motley Fool’s Australian Facebook page. So that’s going to probably make me biased, even if subconsciously.
(Then again, by my reckoning the media stories are about 99-to-1 bashing Facebook for its decision, and I don’t imagine that’s free from conscious- or unconscious bias, either.)
On one side are the free marketeers.
By their reckoning, media proprietors are willingly posting their content on social media, without compulsion. If they don’t like what Facebook is doing, they could simply stop posting.
I have a degree of sympathy with that view. After…
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