[mars4rp]

it would have failed if it wasn't for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur....

Government and regulations always protect monopolies!

[mikeyouse]

Your link doesn't work since the '.' fell off the end:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventur....

And I'd hardly call Facebook a monopoly in 2009 when that case was decided. I think Myspace still had more users at that time.

[Macha]

The same happened to yours. A bug in HN's truncation, I guess?

[mikeyouse]

Yep, must be.. I doubled up the period in my comment and it looks like that fixed it.