{"id":308921,"date":"2019-05-10T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=308921"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:08:45","slug":"why-facebook-welcomes-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/10\/why-facebook-welcomes-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Facebook Welcomes Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re familiar with this, if you heard about it. You probably have. One of the cofounders of Facebook, guy named Chris Hughes, no longer with Facebook, had this gigantic piece in the New York Times yesterday that just savaged Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yeah, he says Zuckerberg\u2019s a fine guy, nice guy, very kind person. Used to be a good friend. Haven\u2019t seen Zuckerberg since 2017. But this is way out of control. Facebook is too big. Facebook needs to be broken up just like AT&T and Standard Oil was. Facebook needs to be broken up, Facebook one division, WhatsApp another division, Instagram another division. Break \u2019em up, they are a monopoly, nobody can compete with \u2019em, they need to be regulated, we gotta break \u2019em up, otherwise Mark\u2019s got too much power. Mark has more power and more influence over politics than anybody who\u2019s ever had, it\u2019s unfair, it\u2019s gotta happen, do it now.<\/p>\n

And what really got this guy off was this Cambridge Analytica thing. I have to tell you, Cambridge Analytica, that was the Mercers found a way to mine the Facebook membership in a way that benefited Donald Trump. The left is out using Facebook the same way Cambridge Analytica did, they just haven\u2019t been as big and successful.<\/p>\n

But because Zuckerberg didn\u2019t stop Cambridge Analytica<\/a> and because Zuckerberg didn\u2019t stop the Russians from running their anti-Hillary ads \u2013 they actually were running anti-Trump ads if you want to know the truth, and the Russians didn\u2019t start buying ads on Facebook until after the election, but that\u2019s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you something. Facebook, have you seen their response? See Zuckerberg\u2019s response? No. He wants to be regulated. Chris Hughes may have a point. We do need to be regulated. Come on in and regulate us. Now, why do you think Zuckerberg wants the government to set up some oversight bunch that\u2019s gonna regulate social media?<\/p>\n

Because he will never have any competition. He doesn\u2019t have any competition now. But it\u2019s no different — remember how we pointed out how crony capitalism works. Let\u2019s say you\u2019re Walmart, and you\u2019ve got a gazillion thousand million dollars and your nearest competitor is Costco and they\u2019ve only got a gazillion dollars.<\/p>\n

What do you do as Walmart? You come out and favor the minimum wage going up to a hundred bucks an hour, whatever it is, you\u2019re in favor of it. Why? Because you know Costco can\u2019t afford it. You can. So you can put your competitor out of business by getting in cahoots with the government to raise the minimum wage when everybody thinks, wait a minute, Walmart, private sector, they ought to be opposed to minimum wage. Not if it will run their competitors out of business.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no different. Zuckerberg and Facebook, \u201cPlease, regulate us, please, \u2019cause it\u2019ll make it impossible for startups to get started if the regulation starts from the moment \u2013” you know, Facebook\u2019s already established, regulate the hell out of them all you want, you can\u2019t change anything. Regulation would end the opportunity for any competition. Regulation would guarantee Facebook\u2019s perpetual monopoly status. That\u2019s why they\u2019re for it. And don\u2019t think anything other than that.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not saying Chris Hughes is running a scam and is actually hoping and doing Facebook\u2019s dirty work. Not saying that. Not saying he\u2019s in on it. I\u2019m just saying that Facebook welcoming regulation is no different than, in my hypothetical example, Walmart eagerly supporting a minimum wage increase.<\/p>\n

If your competitors can\u2019t do business under the new rules, if your competitors can\u2019t do business while being — by regulation, we\u2019re talking about speech, hate speech, government gets to define it. Hate speech, fun speech, political speech, offensive speech, dull speech, dry speech, whatever it is. Facebook\u2019s already established. Nothing\u2019s gonna possibly be done to them. They own it, and by regulating the business, what competitor is gonna want to join that market when you face regulation from the get-go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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