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Agree. We need some old school style trustbusting.
by ianai 7y ago
Agree. We need some old school style trustbusting.
- pimmen 7y agoWe’re fortunate to have some politicians and officials who believe in anti-trust measures in the European Union. Margrethe Vestager is the current champion and I’m glad I’m under her wing rather than her American counterpart, Ajit Pai. I’m optimistic that regulations will come, sooner or later.
- 0xfaded 7y agoI originally succumbed to YouTube premium because of the bundled music. I remembered thinking at the time this bundling put Spotify at a disadvantage. When for unrelated reasons I started degoogling sure enough I went straight to Spotify. Can someone explain where the boundary here is for antitrust?
- Guest42 7y agoFor a moment I read that as truthbusting and got a little frightened
- izacus 7y agoHow would antitrust here look like? It's a subscription for a direct service... what's the monopoly solution here? Ordering Google to store and serve videos for free?
- bogwog 7y agoHow about breaking up Google? Seems like that'd solve a lot more problems than it'd create.
- izacus 7y agoWhich problems mentioned in the original article would that solve? Concretely? Would stand alone YouTube not want payment for their service?
- bogwog 7y agoIf YouTube were an independent company, they would have less leverage in the marketplace overall since they no longer are backed by Google's resources, no longer a part of Google's walled garden. Google will no longer have reason to give YouTube preferential treatment in ranking, advertising, etc. There's a lot of foundational things that will be shaken up, things which will force YouTube to actually be competitive, and actually provide value to users. Competitors will actually have a chance to dethrone them, and then the competitive forces of the marketplace, much like evolution, will lead to the crappiest business practices (like this premium spam) dying off and the market power shifting over to the users/customers. That's of course assuming there's sufficient competition, and the power doesn't just shift over to Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft or some other anti-competitive giants.
- ianai 7y agoWhich is why you can’t just break up one component of an oligopoly.