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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by bmitc on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:35PM (#28881318)
I made a comment recently addressing these very things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28851867

My contention summarized is that using market share as it has historically been used is not good, because these software-based companies can scale to much greater power than ever before whereas in the past, one had to gain significant market share to wield the same or even less power.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by dahfizz on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:19PM (#28881928)
I think you and OP agree. Tech giants are clearly "too powerful" and need to be dealt with, but the traditional formulation of monopoly power is not a good way to deal with these tech giants.
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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by sanderjd on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:02PM (#28883105)
Yep! We do agree. I wouldn't have commented if people were saying "these companies have too much power" because I agree. But they aren't monopolies.
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