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thisgoesnowhere | 1 year ago
It's about scale, if you didn't read my first message then that's fine but just so you can ignore it again.
Me spilling 1 oz oil in my front yard is different that BP spilling millions of gallons.
Similarly Apple and Netflix teaming up is different than me and my local theater teaming up. If you don't like anti trust that's fine but don't act like it's impossible to understand.
scarface_74|1 year ago
But first, no one was talking about Apple and Netflix teaming up. Those are two competitors and independent companies in the same space - streaming.
The discussion was about vertical integration where one company gets to distribute its own content. It was specifically decided Epic vs Apple that a monopoly isn’t being in control of your own content. Nintendo is also not considered a “monopoly” because you can only play most of their IP on thier own hardware
You also failed to answer any of the questions
1. Should we not allow any large content producer to distribute their own content exclusively on their own website and how is video different than audio, news, books, software, physical merchandise, etc? A second part of that conversation does that also apply to news content? Religious content? Documentaries like what CNN does?
2. For digital media, should we block foreign companies that are vertically integrated from being able to be accessed by people in the US?
3. If Netflix reincorporated in Canada should we force all US ISPs not to do business with them? Should we block them like the TikTok ban that is being proposed?
What “monopoly” exactly do you think Netflix has?
thisgoesnowhere|1 year ago
> But first, no one was talking about Apple and Netflix teaming up.
I said Apple instead of Facebook to show how needlessly pedantic you are. There is absolutely no difference between Apple and Facebook here the point is the scale of the company (as I have said)
I wish you to have a needlessly pedantic life and I hope we never cross paths again.