Re:Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior
by ankit219 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:07PM
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Data collection becomes an anti trust issue because as you mentioned, you cant really opt out of the data collection part while continuing to use the service. Even a small social network is sort of a monopoly if all of your friends and family is on that network. That way, even the competitors wont solve the data collection part. I am assuming unless the rules are in place, every one would just keep collecting maximum data.
Adversarial interoperability also means there is incentive for both the incumbent and competitor to keep innovating to keep the audience there (and be mindful of newer ones emerging) and hence the best for the customer.
Re:Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior
by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:36PM
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> Data collection becomes an anti trust issue because as you mentioned, you cant really opt out of the data collection part while continuing to use the service.
The point is that data collection is just problem #8345732473 on the great scroll of reasons why monopolies are bad. It doesn't cause the monopoly and it isn't a significant problem if you make the monopoly go away.
The data collection problem is basically independent of the antitrust problem. The only real overlap is that you can't avoid the data collection when the service is a monopoly you can't avoid doing business with, but the general solution -- more competition -- solves that anyway.
What's really needed is this:
> The other thing is Facebook should not inhibit any other social network trying to grow using FB's graph.
Adversarial interoperability shares the network effect. It lets competitors bootstrap off the incumbent instead of starting from scratch, so then you get more competitors.