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Around is going to cause some people to say, i don't need this trouble from my social media network. i want to post pictures and get up dates on family and news. i just don't trust this any more. >> so you saw that with the unilabor saying they might pull ads. and what is interesting is the reason facebook explode ready network effects. every person who joins makes it more valuable for the next person who joins. every person who leaves makes it easier for the next person to leave. so zuckerberg is atune to any blip or downward trend because it could be a harbinger of things to come. >> great a...

Monopoly in search and facebook is a monopoly in networking. they don't have competitors because of network effects that exist online. now from, a consumer's vantage point. what's not to like? amazon clearly makes stuff cheaper, including books, the things that you and i write for a living apple makes music cheaper. consumers aren't complaining, the big issue is the political consequences of companies like facebook becoming dominant publishers of news and other content. that's the issue. these companies have politics too, you know. brian: for example in music, even ja jay-z said wait a second ...

Have to trust the company. jenna: we are at the miers see of the companies. >> we in a sense are. they of course want to do well by us, i mean a company like facebook, yes they are selling our privacy to anybody who is paying money for them but they have a facade of they'll keep our data private from people who don't pay. >> is it inch tkhaoed indeed a in facade? who is responsible for keeping us safe? are you saying we should out source that to the government so there is more regulation nor the internet? >> i think there is a place for regulation. we are at a point where the market is failing...

Big enough, right, you say, well, it's fine if you're big, but also play on a level playing field like amazon. but the point is, when amazon gets big enough, it can muscle around different state legislatures. that's the issue it seems to me. >> it can be tackled. you think of teddy roosevelt, you can't talk to him, you can think about him. >> i probably get his name wrong. >> and that is why you do need anti-monopoly law and the technology sector lends itself, actually, to the creation of monopolies because you have the network -- >> network effects. >> that inevitably happens. >> briefly expl...

jet in 172 dressed as a priest. the fbi says wright then forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove agents had no guns. he flew to algeria and vanished, until now. he was living in a resort town and is now fighting extradition. for a second day workers are hanging outside the washington monument at the very tippy top, checking each marble block. that earthquake that shook the east coast last month did more damage than first thought. >> these engineers will have to inspect every stone. it will take at least a few days. park officials say they can...