Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by skywhopper on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:11AM
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Once companies gain enough monopolistic control and power over their customers/users/market, they essentially function as government entities, and should be restricted and regulated as we would restrict and regulate the government.
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Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by gnaritas on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:22AM
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None of these companies have a monopoly, and even if they did monopolies should only be regulated when they sell things we must have to live. Monopolies for luxury things are not a problem. Access to google and facebook are not essential things you need.
Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by ivm on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:26AM
(#15585663)
Access to information is not a luxury.
Google and Facebook appropriated the natural course of the evolution of information exchange between humans and should be regulated.
Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by gnaritas on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:28AM
(#15585684)
You don't need access to Google and Facebook to access information, there is an entire giant network out there for sharing information beyond Google and Facebook; there is zero valid reason to regulate these companies.
Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by ivm on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:33AM
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Except they try to keep users out of these networks and inside their platforms while having an absolute market share.
Every monopoly should be regulated and, preferably, broke up.
Re:Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transform...
by gnaritas on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:38AM
(#15585799)
> Every monopoly should be regulated and, preferably, broke up.
No, they shouldn't be and the law doesn't agree with you. You have to be a bad actor before such laws apply, you shouldn't be broken up merely because no one else can compete.