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>Google isn't leveraging a middleman role to maximize revenue extraction from both sides of a transaction it facilitates They're literally the middleman betwee
by balamatom 1y ago
>Google isn't leveraging a middleman role to maximize revenue extraction from both sides of a transaction it facilitates
They're literally the middleman between layfolk an the Internet itself?
- Gormo 1y ago"The internet itself" isn't a vendor that one obtains specific services from.
- balamatom 1y agoFair enough, and neither are users paying customers. It's all middleman at this point.
- Gormo 1y agoA middleman is a specific party that mediates the relationship between two other parties. An aggregated system that everyone is using but no one in particular is in control of is not a middleman in the sense applicable here.