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So, if Ben Thompson says that FB is not a monopoly we are all good and we can cut on all these pesky regulators.

• vineyardmike 5y ago
  > if Ben Thompson says that FB is not a monopoly Well, he was referencing a bunch of sources, including courts rejecting those pesky regulators cases. I could have cited the courts, but BT's writing is a lot easier to read and cites the courts. > we are all good and we can cut on all these pesky regulators. Who's case was thrown out (in the US) for not having any basis for their claim. Its basically the same claim as all HN. Its big, so its a monopoly. Except there is no fact basis for it. They don't have a dominant market share. > the FTC has failed to plead enough facts to plausibly establish a necessary element of all of its Section 2 claims — namely, that Facebook has monopoly power in the market for Personal Social Networking (PSN) Services. The Complaint contains nothing on that score save the naked allegation that the company has had and still has a “dominant share of th[at] market (in excess of 60%).” https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224921/gov.uscourts.dcd.224921.73.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224...
  • gostsamo 5y ago
    This is exactly one court case. Let's see what will happens with the investigations that started not because there were elections coming in the US.