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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by rapind on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:35PM (#28883389)
> none of the three things you mentioned are anywhere close to monopolies

Imagine thinking that google doesn’t have a monopoly on search. That Amazon doesn’t have a monopoly on selling goods online, etc.

Now these companies do lots of other things that they don’t monopolize, but they ARE monopolies in specific high value spaces and they leverage those monopolies in their other endeavours.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by noslenwerdna on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:44PM (#28883484)
Facebook does not have a monopoly on social networking
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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by rapind on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:22AM (#28887353)
I didn’t mention Facebook. I can’t really put my finger on it. They definitely have a lion’s share of a certain type of social networking, but I’m not sure it constitutes a monopoly. Maybe social graph as GP states, but I honestly don’t know enough about it to chime in with an opinion about that.
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