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A private company must act as public infrastructure once it becomes a de facto monopoly.
by DrDimension 7y ago
A private company must act as public infrastructure once it becomes a de facto monopoly.
- mrguyorama 7y agoA company selling compute resources to run web servers is not even close to in a monopoly position
- castis 7y agoedit: nah
- DrDimension 7y agoThe regulation applied to electric and telephone companies in the US... How can people be this ignorant of recent history?
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- DuskStar 7y agoIt might not be true in the general case yet, but it's certainly a sentiment I can get behind. Privately-owned toll roads shouldn't be able to ban political opponents - why should the Internet equivalent be different?
- smt88 7y agoNone of the companies discontinuing relationships with 8chan are monopolies. In some cases they're just the last in their category to finally drop 8chan.
- prawnsalad 7y agoYour argument aside, Cloudflare is definitely not a monopoly. There are many, possibly hundreds, of different CDNs that run at scale.
- madeofpalk 7y agoWhat is Cloudflare's share anyway? Akamai would be #1, right?
- Arrezz 7y agoI've always been intrigued by this, do you think that platforms such as YouTube should be considered public infrastructure? And if so for what reasons?
- anigbrowl 7y agoI'll take that argument seriously when it's accompanied by proposals to buy it out and nationalize it to run at cost rather than make a profit.