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Re:Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints agains... by kube-system on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:47PM (#27668630)
It's not my opinion, it's what the court said in plaintext. YouTube undeniably: "enables users to virtually connect with others in their network and to digitally share their views and experiences by posting about them in a shared, virtual social space."

Competing on features != competing in a different market. Feature sets and markets are two very different things.

What definition would you use to define Facebook's market?

Re:Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints agains... by Retric on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:58PM (#27668744)
Features define the market.

Spray paint manufacturers aren’t in pen market even if you can “recorded text and images in a durable fashion with them.” Lighting a couch on fire sure produces a lot of lights but couch manufactures are not part of the home lighting market.

EDIT: But let’s ignore that. Sure, YouTube has roughly the share of social networking market as the number of people posting vacation photos on it. That might just add up to 0.0001% market share.

Re:Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints agains... by kube-system on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:15PM (#27668950)
If you define the market as [the previous definition] + [photos], Facebook still has significant competitors.

I can’t think of any definition that would only apply to Facebook that isn’t so narrow as to be unprecedented as a definition of an entire market.

Bell was “telephone service”. Standard oil was “oil”. What’s a comparable definition for the market that Facebook is in?

Re:Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints agains... by Retric on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:41PM (#27670671)
I would suggest the overlap between Facebook and G+ is a reasonable definition for broad real life social network for communicating with real world fiends, family, and social activities. LinkedIn, Patron, Reddit etc have related features but are designed for different kinds of relationships and types of communication.

Arguably Instagram in April, 2012 was a reasonable pens vs pencil division where the courts could have included or excluded them quite reasonably. Though allowing Facebook to buy them suggest a vary narrow definition at the time.

Re:Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints agains... by jshen on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:03PM (#27668822)
By that vague definition, any app/site with UGC is a personal social network which is not a very useful definition.
Re:Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints agains... by incompatible on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:30PM (#27670594)
A definition seems hard to come by. I've been informed here in the past that Hacker News is a social network too. It's not implausible to me, since it's a site where you can comment about stuff, just like Facebook.