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I don't know anything about anti-trust law and I don't like the idea of a company with that much power but what would be the basis of a regulatory action here?

• shakna 5y ago
  > Does anti-trust law goes beyond just breaking monopolies? We just saw the EU regulator get rebuffed in a case involving intel strong-arming OEM so they don't use their competitor's chip. It does, but requires the legally significant hurdle of demonstrating precisely how much harm was created. You need to be able to show the kinds and amount of harm that the subject foisted upon the public, and that harm must be "significant" to the entire populace. It's a huge barrier to climb over.
• srcreigh 5y ago
  The argument for Google not being an advertising monopoly can't be "Just don't look at ads." That's like saying hypothetical oil company has no monopoly because people can just walk. There is a hypothetical world where the advertising market is not so ruined that it's apparently a good option to completely avoid it. Maybe if there was better competition, people would not want to avoid ads.