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Re:The antitrust case against Google by peterwoerner on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:43PM (#23495474)
Peter Thiel said you can tell if a company is a monopoly by the way they talk about themselves:

“Anyone that has a monopoly will pretend that they're in incredible competition. If you're a non-monopolist, you will rhetorically describe your market as super small, you're the only person in that market.If you have a monopoly, you will describe it as super big, and there is lots of competition in it"

Re:The antitrust case against Google by ankit219 on Friday June 12, 2020 @05:53AM (#23497641)
This has been a point of contention all the time. Regulators want to shrink the market size as much as possible, and companies want to expand it as much as possible. This is not a way to determine monopoly.
Re:The antitrust case against Google by peterwoerner on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:07PM (#23501321)
The quote was referring to the way the company describes themselves in e.g. 10Q briefings.