Their lobby power is a clear distortion. Politician have been obviously looking the other way. Here they are pretty openly buying political favor, as big as they are and yet its like its some surprise to them that they are called monopolies by those that compete with market share.
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Absolutely, but let's not underestimate the popular pushback against regulation either. There's an enormous amount of people out there who don't mind being required to send a letter under their real name and address but heavens forbid someone suggests that maybe they should be required to use their real names on the internet as well. Internet regulation is a red rag to them.
The "Pirates"-movement is another big factor. They've been receiving handsome donations from Google; "the enemy of my enemy" and all that.
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That's just not true although sometimes it might look that way to an outsider from the industry. For example Netflix held a contest to design their search algorithm that does recommendations etc. Google entered and failed to win it which went to some tiny band of programmers. Likewise Amazon doesn't use Googles search engine, nor does eBay. Nor does the likes of Tinder or Facebook.
The only way to claim google as some kind of monopoly is to use a very very very limited definition of the idea of what is a search.
Competition tries to use government to squelch their trading foes in news that shocks absolutely no-one. Next up will be the "google helps child porn and terrorists" that everyone uses when they run out of other ideas.
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Netflix, Amazon or eBay are hardly typical companies though, are they? As far as I know the average company in the OECD has between 10 and 100 employees. They have no way of standing up to a giant like Google – despite collectively forming the bulk of our economies. Besides, that is not what I meant.
Where I'm coming from, authorities are concerned about the fact that most users make their pick amongst the uppermost search results so there's a lot of incentive for a company to get to the top of queries. And to keep others from getting to the top in return. The problem being that Google in its terms and services (at least the German version) claims to provide users with "the most relevant and up-to-date information" corresponding to their query.
Call me old-fashioned, but when I search for a place to buy medicine I expect to be referred to my nearest pharmacy rather than to Amazon (particularly in this country, where prescription medicine must only be sold through pharmacies). Google wields tremendous power by way of deciding what a user gets to see and what not.
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15 years ago many of the same people a flutter about google were worried that nothing could stop MySpace from utterly dominating the market. 20 years ago people thought Microsoft Internet Explorer was the devils tool.Blackberry held an almost monopoly on smart phones before 2010. Technologies come and go but the desire for the political class to exploit fears over it never goes away.
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It was then and it is now - it's just been renamed EDGE
Back then the internet was a bit of the wild west now it's been taken over by big corporations trying to sell you stuff
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Yeah but everyone was crapping their knickers about how Microsoft would have a "browser monopoly" because of IE.
Meanwhile new stuff like Tik-Tok threaten's YouTube. Things like Parler threaten Twatter. The only true monopolies are the ones created by government fiat as they "regulate the big players". The big players have enough lawyers and accountants that they don't give a crap about more regulation. In many ways they welcome it as it acts as a barrier to anyone new coming along and threatening their position.
Meanwhile new stuff like Tik-Tok threaten's YouTube. Things like Parler threaten Twatter. The only true monopolies are the ones created by government fiat as they "regulate the big players". The big players have enough lawyers and accountants that they don't give a crap about more regulation. In many ways they welcome it as it acts as a barrier to anyone new coming along and threatening their position.
In 2019 while in Hong Kong, clearly under the influence once again, Shane Jones was giving aid to alibaba while NZ minister of development. Alibaba's genre is copies of what Amazon sells and rebranded chinese. Though pretty obvious copies are selling on Amazon these days the two aren't really competitors with brands absent on alibaba.
So his deal was the red carpet for a forwarding center in Palmerston North for the largest plunderer of intellectual property in human history. A real noble cause for him. He directed NZ post to go into partnership with Alibaba.
Most brands we know don't have protection in NZ.
So his deal was the red carpet for a forwarding center in Palmerston North for the largest plunderer of intellectual property in human history. A real noble cause for him. He directed NZ post to go into partnership with Alibaba.
Most brands we know don't have protection in NZ.
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Poorland will have a bit of a job enforcing that one - good luck with that
If they are powerful enough to get rid of the President of the United States
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Parlor going down. Timing is everything and the rush of millions of conservatives to this platform vis a vis the amazon take-down must have been devastation for Parlor.
According to Parlor lawyers there is more poster indentity available to law enforcement than twatter, whom of course is always fine with the Ayatollah's posts.
According to Parlor lawyers there is more poster indentity available to law enforcement than twatter, whom of course is always fine with the Ayatollah's posts.
They aren't all yahoos. Two million in one day signed onto Parlor. Mainly conservatives. Their riot predictably didn't burn one building or business down. Hundereds of thousands of them present. Scary capitalists.
Organizing anything criminal on Parlor. According to Parlor legal advice their system is better than twatters for identifying the poster. Seems an odd place to allegedly organize the insurrection riot as claimed.
Organizing anything criminal on Parlor. According to Parlor legal advice their system is better than twatters for identifying the poster. Seems an odd place to allegedly organize the insurrection riot as claimed.
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