[bawolff]

In hindsight, i think a big part is that myspace's reach extended mostly to early adopter internet users. Early adopters jump on ships early, but also jump off easily too. Once everyone's parents and grandparents jumped on to facebook, that's a much better moat.

FB buying up the competition probably helped too.

[kevin_thibedeau]

> FB buying up the competition probably helped too.

Which the FTC could have stopped at any time.

[nr2x]

The prior administration was very cosy with Google and Facebook, which helped even more.

[uoaei]

And the next one will be too. Harris is a darling of SV giants.

[nr2x]

Yes, I'm curious as to why DOJ announced Google and FTC announced Facebook actions right before the same group of people who nurtured their rise to monopoly status retake power.

[bawolff]

Honest question: how so?

I don't follow usa politics all that closely, so i'm honestly curious how specificly were they cozy?

[nr2x]

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...