fartripper@lemmy.mltoCanada@lemmy.ca•Canadian government suspends advertising on Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram
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1 year agoExcept their costs are exorbitant and eat the majority of the pie based solely on infrastructure and not the actual content creation. And there’s a palpable difference between “advertising your number in a phone book” and “having another company eat the majority of the profit on content you create.” Google and Facebook are not unlike Reddit; they don’t create value except by facilitating access to that value. Absolutely, they should earn something for that facilitation, but not the amount they’re currently earning.
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