[HN Gopher] The easy way to rein in Facebook and Google? Stop th...
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The easy way to rein in Facebook and Google? Stop them gobbling up
competitors
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 22 points
Date : 2021-10-19 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| yuppie_scum wrote:
| Feelsile industry in general could become a lot better if there
| was more friction for m&a. More competition, more likely that
| companies actually produce value, which will require better
| treatment of employees, more middle class administrative jobs
| created, etc.
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| literallyaduck wrote:
| Facebook could be killed by a single state passing a law that
| says data on citizens of the state must only be stored in the
| state, and may not be transferred out without written consent per
| transfer via certified mail. It is well within the power of state
| government to pass this and a single state would cause
| irreparable harm to the user graph.
| Const-me wrote:
| Not sure it's that simple. Facebook has enough money to build
| 51 datacenters in the US, and 27 datacenters in the EU.
| Possible facebook's competitors, on the other hand...
| literallyaduck wrote:
| Try running a query with a join between the data centers and
| having state troopers bust your data analysts. Having the
| data centers doesn't matter if you can't connect the data.
| iamstupidsimple wrote:
| It's possible to run private joins and see aggregate
| results without transfering the raw data.
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