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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by xref on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:14PM (#25707982)
> Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media monopolies

People repeat this a lot which is ironic because they’re doing it on HN. Or Reddit. Or Disqus. Or innumerable other special interest forums.

I don’t even have an FB/Twitter account but spend plenty of time interacting online.

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by inglor_cz on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:04AM (#25713869)
Generally, to be interesting for anti-trust legislation, a company does not need to have absolute control of the market. It needs to have just enough not to worry about competition. Which is a position where Twitter/Facebook are. They tend to acquire all interesting startups that could threaten them.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by gretch on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:20PM (#25716883)
Define “the market” though. Why is it that tik tok can not exist and suddenly become a huge phenomenon in just a few years and Facebook can do nothing about it?

That to me clearly says that FB doesn’t have a monopoly unless you define the market to be so tightly focused on what they control it becomes tautological