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GeekyBearlast Sunday at 3:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

When your product has a monopoly market share, you don't get to use it as a weapon against competitors in other markets, even if you claim there is some imaginary exception to antitrust law involving servers.


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raw_anon_1111last Sunday at 7:41 AM

It’s called “No duty to deal”

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

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bigyabailast Sunday at 4:15 AM

You don't get to demand that the server support your endpoint, period. There is no precedent for that ever happening in US antitrust law, because it's not anticompetitive.

If you think otherwise, make your case to Google's lawyers instead of spinning hypothetical case law.