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Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

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Re: Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

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I miss when antitrust regulations were focused on preventing harm to consumers, rather than competitors. Clearly marketplace is a net benefit to consumers, hence its popularity. If you’ve ever used it compared to any of the other unauthenticated marketplaces it would be obvious why.

The key here is that harm to competition _is_ harm to the consumer in the sense that you spend more for less.

Re: Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

#142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for VR headsets, I reject the notion that facebook/meta is a "tech" company.

Do you think “tech” excludes software or something? That wouldn’t be a normal definition.

Does running a website automatically mean you are a "tech" company?

Or does it become "tech" company just because you need to buy a whole lot of servers to store all the hoarded user data that later is sold out to advertisers?

What's the exact number of servers where running a website becomes a "tech company"?

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