Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
by three_seagrass on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:48PM
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Monopoly is semantically not very complicated. It's a fairly simple economic principle:
- Monopoly = Exclusive control of supply
- Monopsony = Exclusive control of demand
If you want to redefine it to popular things, you should reflect on your motivation to do so.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
by RonanTheGrey on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:13PM
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You might want to reflect on why you want anti-trust law to only apply to the strict definition of a monopoly. That's why it's called "anti-trust" not "anti-monopoly".
Is not the only, nor even the most useful, definition of a monopoly. And there's also not a magic moment where one second you're not a monopoly, and the next second you are when user X+1 signs up. It's a gradual process and that's why it is such a huge area of law.