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Re:Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook by joker3 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:48PM (#18991646)
Who are Facebook's competitors?
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Re:Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook by penagwin on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:54PM (#18991712)
What is Facebook's market? Social media or advertising? If the main "clients/users" are the typical average Joe, and the service is free, does it count as a monopoly (At least in terms of anti-trust laws)?
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Re:Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook by strictnein on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:19PM (#18991969)
That it doesn't own? In the US you could probably could argue:

LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, Youtube, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr. I be they would also argue Google, which would be true from an advertising perspective.

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