Competition law as presently interpreted can hardly protect Facebook users because______. ①Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. ②But it is clumsy. ③For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy. ④By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power. ⑤But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too. ⑥Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don’t pay for them. ⑦The users of their services are not their customers. ⑧That would be the people who buy advertising from them — and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.根据材料，选出正确答案A、they are no defined as customersB、they are not financially reliableC、the services are generally digital D、the services are paid for by advertisers
Competition law as presently interpreted can hardly protect Facebook users because______.
①Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. ②But it is clumsy. ③For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy. ④By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power. ⑤But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too. ⑥Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don’t pay for them. ⑦The users of their services are not their customers. ⑧That would be the people who buy advertising from them — and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.
根据材料，选出正确答案
- A、they are no defined as customers
- B、they are not financially reliable
- C、the services are generally digital
- D、the services are paid for by advertisers
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问题要求我们根据给定的材料，找出为什么现行的反垄断法很难保护Facebook用户。材料中提到，反垄断法在处理数字经济中的问题时显得笨拙，因为它处理的是消费者财务上的不利，而Facebook用户并不直接支付费用。
步骤 2：分析材料中的关键信息
材料中提到，Facebook的用户并不是他们的客户，真正的客户是购买广告的人。因此，当用户不为服务付费时，反垄断法中关于消费者财务不利的规定就不明显了。
步骤 3：确定正确答案
根据材料中的信息，可以确定正确答案是A，即“他们没有被定义为顾客”。这是因为反垄断法处理的是消费者财务上的不利，而Facebook的用户并不直接支付费用，因此他们没有被定义为顾客。