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If it's an algorithm they're using, though, it could easily be dumb enough to flag this because it trained to identify anything anime-shaped as "child porn" and now it's too expensive/would hurt the CEO's feelings to get a new algorithm in place. AI can be staggeringly stupid if it's not...

Dealing with a company like Amazon, my base assumption would actually be that they have a product they think the figurines are competing with and the ban will increase their profits. I don't know that that's the case but I've found that to be the actual reason for companies doing things like...

Well that is what I'm getting at, prevent any one company from having a controlling interest in the discussion by splitting up the forums too much for a majority to ever be on one or even several. I'll grant you dealing with individuals controlling the servers and pipelines carrying the data is...

My system would eliminate the network effect by making it increasingly expensive to build larger networks. That's kinda the point, not moderation where the company will "moderate" by censoring political views they disagree with but limiting feasible network size though increasing expense, and...

Yeah, that was a typo. 5 and 8 are above each other on the 10 key pad and the 0 doesn't seem to have gone through. My bad. No, it proves my point completely. You alleged that the United States cannot forbid somebody from expanding into other markets, the fact that the US has not won 100% of...

And yet they do so all the time, such as when the US tried to break up Microsoft because they branched out into a web browser. Or perhaps we can look at Ford Motor Co. v. United States when Ford tried to branch out into spark plugs and the government hit them with the banhammer for it eight...

It is applicable, you're just thinking very small here. You don't need to control the consumers, you need to keep the businesses from expanding the scope of their business to an unreasonable degree. Google is a search engine, just disallow them expanding into a trust that also handles email...

I imagine they said the same thing about Standard Oil when Rockefeller had sewn up the entire oil industry and both legislative houses. How could you simply stop a businessman from being better than the competition and making lots of money? Turns out Teddy could do that.

It should be possible to overcome the Network effect with proper legislation. All capitalist businesses trend rapidly towards monopoly with competition laws, not just online ones. We saw the same thing in the gilded age where the Trusts completely took over one industry after another until the...

It seems to be that rather than sue Amazon, the better path here would be to make it a legal requirement that the number of clicks and amount of scrolling (plus any other effort) to cancel a service must legally be equal to the effort required to subscribe in the first place.