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If you can use different social network than Facebook, then Facebook is not a monopoly.
by merinowool 8y ago
If you can use different social network than Facebook, then Facebook is not a monopoly.
- Niksko 8y agoNot necessarily disagreeing, but doesn't that basically invalidate the idea of a monopoly in a free and open internet? Perhaps the definition of a monopoly from analog era doesn't apply to the internet?
- merinowool 8y agoYes, in the free market monopoly is impossible to form. You only get anomalies when you start adding socialism into the mix.
- simion314 8y agoDo you have a scientific resource that proves your statement? Like a model that was run in a computer and resulted in a perfect free market? Maybe it would be true in a perfect free market, where people would act rational and won't be jerks, I don't have proof but intuitively I can see a free market simulator where some actors will find a small loophole and exploit it to maximize it's profit destroying everyone else.
- merinowool 8y agoIt is just common sense. Regulations give one advantage and restrict competition which is a breeding ground for monopolies.
- icebraining 8y agoThat only shows that regulations may create monopolies, not that they're the only reason for their existence.
- merinowool 8y agoSure, but that is the main reason.
- simion314 8y agoIs this a fact or your intuition, in a perfect society we do not need laws, in such a perfect society communism would also work fine, but since the world is not perfect we need laws or revolutions to fix the problems, I would really love some economist to team up with some game developers and run some economic simulations with different level of regulations, it would be interesting to see how well the model would match the reality.
- merinowool 8y agoThis is my observation and so far it has not been proven wrong.
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- ionised 8y agoUtter nonsense.
- realusername 8y agoTry to name a different one which has more than 3% market share then... It's totally a monopoly.
- toasterlovin 8y agoTo use a social network, you need your IRL social network to be on it. Unless you're young and on Snapchat, there is no other social network that your IRL social network is on. So, there is no different social network that you can use.