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Re:It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube by pwinnski on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:02AM (#34925132)
Which, again, makes the anti-trust case stronger. The case being: Google leverages one of their businesses (providing compute) to build an anti-competitive moat around another of their businesses (youtube), and it's so effective that they have driven all competitors out of the market.

By nearly any standard, Google's control of YouTube should be a prime anti-trust target.

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Re:It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube by meragrin_ on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:32AM (#34925476)
> Google leverages one of their businesses (providing compute) to build an anti-competitive moat around another of their businesses (youtube),

You speak as if providing compute is their primary business. Youtube, existed long before their compute. They already had all their own compute. They only got into providing compute because they figured they could beat AWS with their own infrastructure.

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Re:It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube by UncleEntity on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:29AM (#34925422)
Being a monopoly isn’t illegal, abusing your monopoly is.

And how does “providing compute” even matter, YouTube is just using google servers like every other google service. Not like they’re getting something for free because they’re part of the same company.

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