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Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V... by empath75 on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:58PM (#21052280)
> Isn’t it fair market competition?

Exploiting a monopoly in one segment in order to capture another is text book unfair competition.

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Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V... by SkyMarshal on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:03PM (#21054701)
Exactly, that's illegal under US anti-trust law. It's called product tying.

It's legal to achieve a monopoly by competitive means, via pure excellence in product and operations. But it's illegal to then attempt to achieve another monopoly in a different product by tying it to your legal monopoly product.

That was part of the US DoJ suit against Microsoft in the 90s.

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Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V... by wombat-man on Monday September 23, 2019 @06:52PM (#21054622)
I mean, they're competing social networks.
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