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What ways have they been anti-competitive? I hear lots of people refer to fb specifically as a monopoly, and talk about the need to break them up or punish them
by vineyardmike 4y ago
What ways have they been anti-competitive? I hear lots of people refer to fb specifically as a monopoly, and talk about the need to break them up or punish them for behavior. Compared to other fangs, I don’t know what they’ve done? I’m not denying it but genuinely curious what people have to say.
Eg Apple has taken heat for its restrictions on App stores and the double standards they impose on competitors. I’ve also heard of Google slowing down YouTube on competitors browsers to push chrome.
I can’t think of any direct anticompetitive behavior beyond building a product that benefits from the network affect.
- paganel 4y agoThey've bought their way into controlling the majority of the social media space with the acquisitions of IG and WhatsApp. TikTok has helped put a dent on that, but outside the US (and its strange fixation for the colour of the online messages' background) they still control almost all the private messaging space (of course, I'm ignoring markets like China and Russia, where there are other things at play).
- johannes1234321 4y agoIf you look globally they built initiatives like "internet.org" or "free basics" where they pay telcos to make access to Facebook/Meta sites free. In those markets calling somebody on a phone is expensive, but WhatsApp is free. Looking up a business's website costs expensive data traffic, but checking the business's Facebook page is free. Big pockets finding to make Facebook the internet.