(12-04-2018 07:59 PM)Wolfman Wrote:  None of those companies are monopolies. They may be more popular but that doesn't constitute a monopoly. They may be big but that doesn't constitute a monopoly. There are alternatives to all of the companies mentioned.

On top of that, the feds are raking them over the coals about foreign intervention, something the feds are supposed to police.

Well the article makes the point that there was a startup trying to compete with Twitter and it got dropped by its host and nobody else would pick them up. They were trying to be what twitter and facebook claim to be, open to all. That meant there was some extreme content.

So is there really an opportunity to create competition? And are Google and Facebook limiting entrants into the media market by being a gateway as the internet replaces paper?