Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, March 12th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook self-owns by taking down Senator Warren's ads.

Spotify will give you Hulu for free.

Why the Bay Area is no longer the best place for startups

and the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Look, I'm sympathetic to the views of some Facebookers when they say they feel like they are the scapegoats and punching bag for everyone's fears and anxieties around big tech, often unfairly.

But at the same time, as I've said before, it's hard to argue that to some degree,

Facebook has brought the attention on itself, either through specific strategies and decisions

that we can chalk up to culture.

Read here, I think, aggression and arrogance.

But also it sometimes feels like they are almost comically

tone-deaf to how certain things they do will come across to people.

And that's either a cultural problem also,

or maybe it's just actual incompetence.

This story is all wrapped up in what I've just said,

but as to where on the spectrum this falls, I couldn't say.

Bottom line, if a sitting US senator posits as a part of their platform when running for

president that tech platforms have too much power maybe you

shouldn't do a thing like take down the ads that that candidate is running on your

very same platform that's exactly what Facebook did.

Senator Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign was running Facebook ads calling for the breakup of Facebook and other big tech companies.

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