So Twitter of all things are a monopoly? Truth Social is proof that anyone can build a social network platform. It being a failure is an example of the free market at work.
Landline phones and the internet infrastructure and the cell network are all examples of natural monopolies, a website is not a natural monopoly.
This isn't actually true, in the US anti-trust laws don't take into account company size at all. A small company can engage in anti-competitive practices, and a monopoly isn't inherently in violation of anti-trust laws.
There are laws that only apply if a company has enough employees, and tax stuff that applies only above certain revenue, but I'm not actually aware of any other regulations that apply if a company has too many customers.
> in the US anti-trust laws don't take into account company size at all.
It takes into account market power.
> and a monopoly isn't inherently in violation of anti-trust laws.
Good thing that I didn't say that every single monopoly, ever, is in violation of anti-trust law then.
> A small company can engage in anti-competitive practices
It can, yes. But the law is much more likely to make these practices illegal if the company has a large amount of market power.
So yes, the more market power, or larger influence, that a company has, the more likely that some, but not all, laws will apply to them and regulate their behavior.
Some laws DO "only" apply if a company has a large enough market power, yes.
The point of the statement, is the general concept of a company being "large", having an effect on if the law applies or not.
> That's what I thought.
Actually, my previous statement is correct, you just mis-interpreted it. Because I was referring to this general concept of a company being large, and how some laws include this factor as a metric that is relevant to if the law applies.
So I was correct the entire time, you just made up a different idea to attack because you were not able to understand what I was saying.
Landline phones and the internet infrastructure and the cell network are all examples of natural monopolies, a website is not a natural monopoly.