3 ms·
Trying to use your dominance in one space (search, or browsers, say) to actively steal data from a competitor (scrape Facebook!) with the intention to destroy t
by unreal37 7y ago
Trying to use your dominance in one space (search, or browsers, say) to actively steal data from a competitor (scrape Facebook!) with the intention to destroy that competitor is something lawyers have wet dreams about.
I mean, Facebook would have destroyed them in court.
- kragen 7y agoIt's a real problem that Facebook users don't have a way to download their own Facebook data.
- devit 7y agoI think it would have been important enough for Google to be worth fighting no matter the cost, since it would have been the only viable way of replacing Facebook. The user would be consenting, initiating and running the procedure on his own machine, so there's a plausible argument that it's fine. Regarding the antitrust argument, you could also argue that Facebook is a monopoly in social networks and that preventing such a data transfer is anticompetitive.