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My point is huge companies can engage can have negative effects on competition even if they eventually fall.

How many businesses has Amazon whipped out in the retail space by leaning on the profits from the cloud division?

Just the other day we saw documents from the DOJ’s lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive behavior. In the those documents we saw internal communication about a desire for Google to use their dominance in the browser space to create the web into a walled garden [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974798



Literally any functioning company has negative effects on its competition.

Google turning the web into a walled garden will simply create opportunity for others.




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