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Banning and demonetizing users is not an antitrust issue. Poor customer service is not an antitrust issue. Nothing related to politics or censorship is an antit
by root_axis 7y ago
Banning and demonetizing users is not an antitrust issue. Poor customer service is not an antitrust issue. Nothing related to politics or censorship is an antitrust issue.
Where I think google could be in trouble.
- Using google.com to push chrome installations when non-chrome browsers are detected.
- Forcing google services on android users
- Giving preferential search rankings to google services over competing services
- Ad network exclusivity contracts.
- prepend 7y ago> Poor customer service is not an antitrust issue When you control both ends of the market (advertisers and consumers) it becomes antitrust because of the consumer harm.
- buboard 7y agohow is demonetization not an antitrust issue? They control the ad market, why should they also decide whether their advertisers can reach certain publishers? Shouldn't they be a neutral ad exchange platform, given that they have absolute control in the ad markets? What's the justification behind demonetization other than starving websites to death?
- root_axis 7y agoDemonetization is in service of advertiser prerogatives. YouTube would monetize every video if they could because it would make them a lot of money, they don't do so because advertisers do not want to advertise on controversial videos. YouTube loses a ton of money when they have to stream HD video to millions of viewers for free. Additionally, advertisers are not prohibited from working directly with publishers and this is actually pretty common.
- buboard 7y ago> because advertisers do not want to advertise on controversial videos all of them? proof?