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To: PGR88

Every definition includes the term “exclusive.” That means there is only one source for the goods or service. Google is hardly the only search engine.


29 posted on 08/21/2017 9:54:17 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

For all intents and purposes, Google is a monopoly, especially when it paid search related. It’s not that hard to see down the road where the only 4 companies of size in their respective industry plus many others are Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix (or at least 3 out of these 4). The whole point of capitalism is to have small businesses constantly disrupting and breaking the large guy but our system today is designed to do just the opposite. When one of the FANGs (Amazon purchasing of WFM and announcing meal kits) can kill 75% of the market value of a fairly good size firm that was 2 days from going public (Blue Apron) in a matter of weeks, there is a big problem.


38 posted on 08/21/2017 10:46:18 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: sparklite2

Do anti-trust regulations apply only to literally exclusive product-source companies?


43 posted on 08/21/2017 11:32:14 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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