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'Deplatforming' isn't effective as a strategy if the platform/medium/resource isn't exclusive or scarce in some way. Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media m
by krona 6y ago
'Deplatforming' isn't effective as a strategy if the platform/medium/resource isn't exclusive or scarce in some way. Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media monopolies. Android/App Store platforms are distribution monopolies for mobile Apps.
Hosting companies? ISPs? Book publishers? Not so much, although things aren't moving in the right direction on those fronts. Cloud platforms come to mind.
- xref 6y ago> Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media monopolies People repeat this a lot which is ironic because they’re doing it on HN. Or Reddit. Or Disqus. Or innumerable other special interest forums. I don’t even have an FB/Twitter account but spend plenty of time interacting online.
- inglor_cz 6y agoGenerally, to be interesting for anti-trust legislation, a company does not need to have absolute control of the market. It needs to have just enough not to worry about competition. Which is a position where Twitter/Facebook are. They tend to acquire all interesting startups that could threaten them.
- gretch 6y agoDefine “the market” though. Why is it that tik tok can not exist and suddenly become a huge phenomenon in just a few years and Facebook can do nothing about it? That to me clearly says that FB doesn’t have a monopoly unless you define the market to be so tightly focused on what they control it becomes tautological