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> Isn’t it fair market competition? Exploiting a monopoly in one segment in order to capture another is text book unfair competition.
by empath75 7y ago
> Isn’t it fair market competition?
Exploiting a monopoly in one segment in order to capture another is text book unfair competition.
- wombat-man 7y agoI mean, they're competing social networks.
- SkyMarshal 7y agoExactly, that's illegal under US anti-trust law. It's called product tying. It's legal to achieve a monopoly by competitive means, via pure excellence in product and operations. But it's illegal to then attempt to achieve another monopoly in a different product by tying it to your legal monopoly product. That was part of the US DoJ suit against Microsoft in the 90s.