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Re:Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress by amelius on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:15PM (#16806040)
Why didn't telephone companies suffer from a similar network effect, and isn't there a monopolist in telephony?

Can we apply the same principles in the case of Facebook?

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress by amarkov on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:17PM (#16806540)
They did suffer from a similar network effect, which was only broken when AT&T accepted a consent decree to spin off all its regional providers.
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