Is Google a Problem or a Monopoly?

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Google's monopoly is not because they control all the internet pipes that use type trip advisor.com and you magically end up on Google Wow, that's so unfair. No, the problem is individual users making choices And to have a regulatory perspective predicated in a world of scarcity where you are taking those that control scarce resources Enforcing them to share or forcing them to provide open APIs isfundamentally misapplied In a world of abundance people are making months of individual choices.

Ben and James discuss the antitrust subcommittee hearing, the problems of mixing antitrust and Aggregators, and how to think about regulation and democracy.

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