Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws...
by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:23AM
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> which I understand to be "only a monopolist would make it easy for consumers to choose a competitor"
No, not "only".
The argument is that while non-monopolists have a motivation to add those choices, monopolists have a motivation too.
Therefore seeing the end result isn't very strong evidence for whether something is a monopoly or not.
Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws...
by papeda on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:10AM
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I agree with your statement. The comment I was responding to does not:
> If anything this is evidence of Google’s search engine monopoly and Google built the selection feature into Chrome it in furtherance of that monopoly power
That seems different from your argument, which I understand to be "only a monopolist would make it easy for consumers to choose a competitor". But again, the conclusion that Google is a monopolist seems to be baked into this logic -- would you really say Google is not a monopolist if they did not offer search engine choice?