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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by bborud on Friday January 26, 2018 @08:56AM (#16239123)
When I was at Google, we were a de facto monopoly on search so we were subject to more stringent regulation. I do believe we were effectively treated as a monopoly on search.

(Yes, this does have consequences down to the individual developer level)

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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by jp555 on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:06AM (#16239180)
What monopoly regulation would apply to a dominant market position delivering value at no cost to the user, for a product who’s competitors are but a click away?

I thought US monopoly laws were more about dealing with unfair profiteering off customers?

Or do I not know that Google’s advertising rates are regulated by monopoly laws?

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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by s2g on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:10PM (#16242461)
> I thought US monopoly laws were more about dealing with unfair profiteering off customers?

This finally seems to be starting to shift.

> What monopoly regulation would apply to a dominant market position delivering value at no cost to the user

Look at what is happening to Google in the EU.

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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by ebragg09 on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:32PM (#16241027)
the big thing that falls under monopoly regulations is google favoring ads for their products over competitors. showing google shopping results over amazon ones, for example.
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