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I kind of feel the same as you. I'm happy that Parler is gone but on the other hand I think that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter are monopolies and should

I kind of feel the same as you. I'm happy that Parler is gone but on the other hand I think that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter are monopolies and should be broken up.

Grimm1 6y ago
I agree. I see a lot of people pushing to give them special status or make them town squares and I think that is the exact opposite solution we need. We should take anti-monopoly action and foster competition in their respective markets instead.
sidr 6y ago
These are 4 different companies that compete with each other (Google Cloud vs. AWS and Facebook vs. Twitter, also although you didn't list it Apple vs. Google) in the spaces relevant to this conversation (cloud services, social media, and phone apps). One can always list all the players in an industry and call that set "a monopoly and should be broken up". Or we can just take this for what it is, which is that some entity is so toxic that none of these companies (which compete with each other otherwise) want to touch it.
- erdeszt 6y ago
  Google has monopoly on search, Amazon on online retail and to a lesser extent cloud hosting, Facebook on social media. Twitter on 140 character word dumps so that's maybe not at the same level bad as the others. Edit: Apple doesn't really have a monopoly on anything.
JohnBooty 6y ago
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter are monopolies and should be broken up. Dominant market share != monopoly For a monopoly, you need anticompetitive practices. Is Facebook unfairly preventing the success of other social networks? A good example of a monopoly was 90's era Microsoft, which prevented its OEMs from shipping competing operating systems. Terminology aside, I completely agree with you that we need far, far more choice in the marketplace.
- erdeszt 6y ago
  Amazon: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-investigate-amazon-over-possible-anti-competitive-practices.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-investigate-amazon-ove... & https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/06/13/if-amazon-is-guilty-of-anti-competitive-practices-who-did-it-learn-themfrom/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/06/13/if-amazo... Google: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-sued-again-over-anti-010111174.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-sued-again-over-anti-0... & https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/anti-competitive-google/ar-BB1ctniP https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/anti-competitive-g... Facebook: https://medium.com/swlh/facebook-is-killing-the-competition-and-thats-not-new-b5f89542f331 https://medium.com/swlh/facebook-is-killing-the-competition-... & https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529504-state-ags-ftc-sue-facebook-alleging-anti-competitive-practices https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529504-state-ags-ftc-s... Granted these are just lawsuits at the moment and not final verdicts but still it's not hard to see how they don't play a fair game.

I kind of feel the same as you. I'm happy that Parler is gone but on the other hand I think that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter are monopolies and should be broken up.

Grimm1 6y ago

I agree. I see a lot of people pushing to give them special status or make them town squares and I think that is the exact opposite solution we need. We should take anti-monopoly action and foster competition in their respective markets instead.

sidr 6y ago

These are 4 different companies that compete with each other (Google Cloud vs. AWS and Facebook vs. Twitter, also although you didn't list it Apple vs. Google) in the spaces relevant to this conversation (cloud services, social media, and phone apps). One can always list all the players in an industry and call that set "a monopoly and should be broken up". Or we can just take this for what it is, which is that some entity is so toxic that none of these companies (which compete with each other otherwise) want to touch it.

erdeszt 6y ago
Google has monopoly on search, Amazon on online retail and to a lesser extent cloud hosting, Facebook on social media. Twitter on 140 character word dumps so that's maybe not at the same level bad as the others. Edit: Apple doesn't really have a monopoly on anything.

JohnBooty 6y ago

Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter are monopolies and should be broken up. Dominant market share != monopoly For a monopoly, you need anticompetitive practices. Is Facebook unfairly preventing the success of other social networks? A good example of a monopoly was 90's era Microsoft, which prevented its OEMs from shipping competing operating systems. Terminology aside, I completely agree with you that we need far, far more choice in the marketplace.

erdeszt 6y ago
Amazon: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-investigate-amazon-over-possible-anti-competitive-practices.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-investigate-amazon-ove... & https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/06/13/if-amazon-is-guilty-of-anti-competitive-practices-who-did-it-learn-themfrom/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/06/13/if-amazo... Google: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-sued-again-over-anti-010111174.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-sued-again-over-anti-0... & https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/anti-competitive-google/ar-BB1ctniP https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/anti-competitive-g... Facebook: https://medium.com/swlh/facebook-is-killing-the-competition-and-thats-not-new-b5f89542f331 https://medium.com/swlh/facebook-is-killing-the-competition-... & https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529504-state-ags-ftc-sue-facebook-alleging-anti-competitive-practices https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529504-state-ags-ftc-s... Granted these are just lawsuits at the moment and not final verdicts but still it's not hard to see how they don't play a fair game.