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> Consumers are free to visit any competitor site with identical ease of accessibility and competitors have very few barriers to entry I would strongly disagre
by ethbro 9y ago
> Consumers are free to visit any competitor site with identical ease of accessibility and competitors have very few barriers to entry
I would strongly disagree with this characterization of the market.
From joe_the_user's link [1] on oligopolies, every item under Barriers to Entry: Artificial Barriers applies to large, network-effect web companies.
Google Takeout is probably the guiding light on fighting this, but were Google no longer in a dominant market position I'm not confident it would remain a corporate emphasis.
... Ironically, this same debate (regulating ISP vs edge provider) just came up in Zuckerberg's Senate questioning.