{"id":7383,"date":"2022-03-04T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2022-03-04T19:14:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:14:05","slug":"facebooks-monopoly-was-always-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s &#8216;Monopoly&#8217; Was Always Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Facebook is still a behemoth, and it has a long way to fall before that will cease to be true (if it ever is). I&#8217;m not suggesting we start writing eulogies yet. But the U.S. (and European Union) antitrust push against Facebook and other big tech companies assumes\u2014and often explicitly argues\u2014that Facebook&#8217;s power is permanent and its market share irreversible. Recent developments&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;ancient history show that&#8217;s very obviously not the case.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/02\/09\/facebooks-monopoly-was-always-doomed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/02\/09\/facebooks-monopoly-was-always-doomed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Facebook is still a behemoth, and it has a long way to fall before that will cease to be true (if it ever is). I&#8217;m not suggesting we start writing eulogies yet. But the U.S. (and European Union) antitrust push against Facebook and other big tech companies assumes\u2014and often explicitly argues\u2014that Facebook&#8217;s power is permanent and its market share irreversible. Recent developments and ancient history show that&#8217;s very obviously not the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,217,761,1166,1005],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-facebook","tag-monopoly","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}