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happy holidays. Facebook really flipped that switch in June of 2014, the same month that Google exited the social media market.

A new antitrust lawsuit says killing competition enabled Facebook's devouring of user data.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

What that case can't possibly address, though,

is Facebook's responsibility for bodily harm, even domestic terrorism.

It's the equivalent of the meeting house where the white supremacist met up,

swap notes and advertised for new recruits.

Nor does antitrust protect invasions of our lives, tracked everywhere even by objects, eventually to be monetized.

It could be your dishwasher, it could be your television set, it could actually be the mattress

on your bed.

Surveillance capitalism, where our future behavior is the product.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

It's beginning to look a lot like Sherman.

Senator John Sherman, that is, who in 1890 sponsored the antitrust law that bears his name.

130 years ago, he pronounced, quote,

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