Facebook takes the piss, especially with the latest, intrusion of our privacy.

I would like to see the government's focus more on businesses instead of banks, yes.

well the problem is that once a business gets big enough, they can force a virtual monopoly

and that's our problem, they can collude with one another to be in line with anti-trust laws while also being a virtual/figurative monopoly

That's not a problem

You can break that down , no sweat, just have law's to prohibit mergers

Which hasn't been happening!

The actual problem has been discovered and is being discussed. The issue of platform/publisher.

Disney is also a monopoly, is that a problem? Not really.

"It's not a problem that companies can collude with each other to keep prices high, make up their own rules, and unperson anyone they want"

and yes disney being a monopoly is a problem

No it's not

how is it not

What's Disney doing that's so terrible?

blocking competition, stagnating the movie industry with constant remakes that can hog the time from other movies, they also have a massive fallback safety net for doing literally anything bad. If they fuck up a specific property or IP then there's absolutely no recourse whatsoever, it's just dead.

They aren't accountable to their customers which means they can do whatever they want to the product without recourse

"Stagnating the movie industry" is entirely subjective
"Fuck up property/IP" they are facing backlash, and people can still create their own films anyway
"Blocking competition" citation needed

Where is the poetic licence if you have monopolies?

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stagnation
```a failure to develop, progress, or advance:
periods of economic stagnation followed by bursts of growth.
the state or quality of being or feeling sluggish and dull:
Happily, they have been able to avoid stagnation in their ten-year marriage.```
the 4th definition is subjective, i agree, however the third is not, can you state the last 'new' ip disney has put out recently? i'm not that good at memory so i'm not a good person to ask,however I can tell you that it's mostly remakes now,

"They are facing backlash." Oh yeah sure sure, backlash that is frequently ignored and substituted for the loud minority that match their specific political views
"Blocking competition" It doesn't have to be active, you can passively block competition by simply being so big that everyone uses you and therefore nobody is willing to switch

I just think you have not thought this through at all @ETBrooD because you're quite happy to have the same message pumped to you. Its not how diversity works. I like independent bodies , and I liked Pixar animation . That broke the mold . But, what you are dealing here is stagnation. Competition, means , a new form of art or something new.

@Holo shit you are so my best friend ! We were typing the same thing together

Passively blocking competition is not a thing

it's hard to have a competitor when you've already been operating at a loss, EG youtube. Youtube operates at a MASSIVE loss right now, no company or startup is going to be able to compete with youtube simply because the barrier for entry is too damn high

If you're first to arrive, then it's your right to stay

No it's bollucks that's why Hollywood went crash. <:Veemote:501103628883591188>

That's not true at all lol... if you're not providing a service for your customers then there should be room for competition, but if competition can't compete, even if they offer a better service, that's bad

Disney is not blocking alternative service this way

Yeah but you can't do that with a monopoly because you end up not giving a shit about your consumers

They are quite often offering terrible deals to theaters, and they have faced backlash for that, too. Some theaters have strictly refused to take such deals.

i mean, if you want, i can do a deep search, but i'll bet money there's at least one virtual monopoly in this chart https://storage.googleapis.com/titlemax-media/1c8ace8f-every-company-disney-owns-13_pageversion-lg.jpg

It no longer produces high end products . It just mass produces junk. Ask Trump to do the analysis because I am sure , he would agree this is what's happened to the British markets .

They deplete the markets and then there is no growth or room for improvement.

I know Disney is a monopoly, my argument is that monopolies are not a bad thing

they aren't if there is room for competition

You're looking at it the wrong way in my opinion

There is room for competition though

Well you like to be the opposite of normal . You like to be argumentative without sound based arguments.

No there isn't if they take over or merge .

Then the legislation they come out with polarises those companies .

You can compete with Disney, you just don't become as big as Disney right now, because either you give up along the way or you get bought up, but nothing's actively stopping you.

There's a difference between being a strong competitor and being a competitor

That's what they said about Hollywood and it went bust.