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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by SkyPuncher on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:08PM (#25363983)
I'll give an easy example: Requiring users to have a Facebook account to use their Oculus device.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by closeparen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:31PM (#25364377)
Having a Facebook account is a symbolic/emotional injury to a tech contrarian, but I don’t see the courts particularly caring about that. It’s not like you have to actually spend any time or money on it.
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by rhizome on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:32PM (#25364407)
Is that actually a criteria in antitrust?
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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by closeparen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:47PM (#25364662)
Antitrust could care if other social networks were unfairly disadvantaged because everyone was using the Facebook account that came with their Oculus.

Having an entry in Facebook’s users table is a long way from using Facebook for your social networking to the exclusion of competitors.

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