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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.



No, I didn't say that twitter was a monopoly.

Instead, I gave an example of how it is an established precedent that yes certain laws only apply if a company is large, or has a large market effect.

Are you actually unaware that there are laws that only apply if a company is large enough?


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.


> It can, yes.

So they don't "only" apply if the company is large enough? That's what I thought.


> So they don't "only" apply

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.




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