News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network. Parent comment

Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by gman83 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:29PM (#14158830)
It seems to me they are leveraging their monopoly position in one area to dominate competitors in other areas. IANAL, but isn't that the very reason antitrust exists?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by ghaff on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:46PM (#14159004)
Anti-trust is tricky and depends on defining the markets, defining what constitutes a monopoly, the barriers to entry, etc. Is Facebook in a different market from Snapchat or are they all part of a general "social media" space?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by gman83 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:23PM (#14161051)
"news feed social media" vs "pictures social media" vs "augmented reality social media" vs "virtual reality social media". Facebook should want competitors tbh. Even if Peter Thiel manages to convince Trump to tell the Justice Dept. to back off, I doubt the European Commission will agree.
[ Parent | on HN ]