b_fungDec 18, 2022

As I wrote Friday, Twitter's banning of links to competing social platforms *could* be perceived as anticompetitive, according to antitrust experts including Bill Baer, the former DOJ and FTC antitrust chief in two US administrations. But it isn't exactly cut and dry, they tell me.

The tricky thing is first proving that Twitter has market power. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/mastodon-twitter-links/index.html

Show threadMarshall SteinbaumDec 18, 2022
@b_fung @emilybell hence why he pretended to ban a larger number of social sites, ie Facebook & Instagram. To be able to say the market is larger?
Show threadRich Stein (he/him)Dec 19, 2022
@econ_marshall @b_fung @emilybell This is and interesting take from Europe (hope I do this right; in any event, see this toot and also see the tweet thread): https://mastodon.social/@ericfreyss/109536062874877352
Show threadRich Stein (he/him)
@econ_marshall @b_fung @emilybell sorry... "an interesting take..."
Dec 19, 2022 at 2:17amWeb