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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by ruleabidinguser on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:57PM (#14159701)
How is it worse for the consumer, though? I don't see how, under capitalism, its even possible for an abusive company to maintain a strong position.
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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by fdsfsafasfdas on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:49PM (#14169699)
> I don't see how, under capitalism, its even possible for an abusive company to maintain a strong position.

Network effects. Together everyone hates it; individually, there is nowhere else for people to go without losing the majority of your social network. Facebook has people; its software is utterly irrelevant to why people use it.

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