Re:Towards a world without Facebook
by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:47PM
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We need the DoJ to take Facebook to court for being a social network monopoly. If AT&T exhibited destructive network effects, Facebook is them times ten. “Market share” measured solely in purchasing consumers is no longer a good sole metric for monopolies.
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Re:Towards a world without Facebook
by dragonwriter on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:10AM
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> We need the DoJ to take Facebook to court for being a social network monopoly.
Being a monopoly isn't actionable.
> If AT&T exhibited destructive network effects, Facebook is them times ten.
No, it's not. AT&T was far worse than Facebook in the practical, and exercised, ability to deny choice in ancillary markets.
> “Market share” measured solely in purchasing consumers is no longer a good sole metric for monopolies.
It hasn't ever been the legal sole metric.