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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by OldManAndTheCpp on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:30PM (#23394355)
Do unified backends mean that the government can't enforce antitrust action? That would be quite the loophole.
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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by awinder on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#23394495)
No lmao, the US has enforced monopoly breakups of companies with much larger physical barriers, and honestly much more real-world dependency/impact
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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by lecanucker on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#23394517)
"See, it's really just one <thing>! and with our unified TOS, it's just one service with 3 different ways to consume it!"

...Facebook, probably.

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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by barbecue_sauce on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:41PM (#23394546)
Yeah, not sure why that would be pertinent.

"You can't split us up! Our backends are unified!" "Un-unify your backend." "...oh."

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