The Long-Term Regulation Challenges Faced by Google Facebook

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The long-term regulatory framework for Google is antitrust where they're held to abuse that power in various ways. On the flip side antitrust regulators are much more likely to have an issue with Google because their position in the value change is so much stronger than Facebook's. The regulation for Facebook is likely going to come by a more sort of democratic means by which I mean there's going to be like laws passed, he says.

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s current crisis, and why almost everyone misunderstands what the company did wrong: the problem isn’t advertising, it was Facebook’s desire to be a platform.

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Links

James Allworth: What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking — Medium
Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech — Stratechery
Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’ — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Good News — Stratechery
Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Wired About Facebook’s Privacy Problem — Wired
Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery