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To: Dr. Franklin
How hard is it really to create rival sites?

For many people, it's about monetization and google, who owns youtube, has the market cornered for internet advertising. They account for 80-90% of all web advertising. Google is a monopoly and need to be broken up. Some people think google is a creation of the CIA. Google is owned by Alphabet Inc. Is that irony? Alphabet agencies(CIA/NSA/FBI), Alphabet Inc?

No, you can't simply create a rival to a monopoly that took decades to build.

Google headquarters

Just one of their data centers

meh private company. Just build your own say conservatives.

13 posted on 08/01/2021 8:33:13 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Pollard
For many people, it's about monetization and google, who owns youtube, has the market cornered for internet advertising. They account for 80-90% of all web advertising. Google is a monopoly and need to be broken up. Some people think google is a creation of the CIA. Google is owned by Alphabet Inc. Is that irony? Alphabet agencies(CIA/NSA/FBI), Alphabet Inc?
No, you can't simply create a rival to a monopoly that took decades to build.


Right, but the things that sustain the monopoly have been permitted to remain unchanged by government inaction. The E.U. has been more effective in limiting Big Tech than the U.S. That has been done largely through privacy laws, i.e., limiting tracking cookies, keeping and selling private information, etc. In comparison, U.S. privacy laws are almost nonexistent.
14 posted on 08/01/2021 9:32:48 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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