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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio] by hartator on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:13AM (#18460410)
What matter are laws that are making harder to compete with them.

Thanks to GDPR, you’ll probably never see a fb competitor emerge in Europe for example.

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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio] by gajeam on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:09PM (#18461068)
Why is this the case? Don't the data portability rules make it easier for Europeans to be able to switch to a Facebook alternative?
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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio] by paulddraper on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:24PM (#18462365)
The argument for this point of view is that regulations like GDPR (or other things like corporate taxes) are easier for companies with gobs of capital and armies of lawyers/accounts to accommodate than companies lacking those resources.

A tall person may not appreciate flood waters, but a short person appreciates them even less.

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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio] by sheana_ahlqvist on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:38PM (#18461364)
The argument they made in support of GDPR for reducing monopolies was pretty strong.
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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio] by pjmlp on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:17AM (#18460454)
Which is a good thing.

As for FB itself, once upon a time Hi5 and MySpace were all that matter for social networking.

Also many European social networking sites like Xing are doing pretty ok, in spite of GDPR.

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