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by john_moscow 1987 days ago
>It's Twitter's own servers

That are offered to the customers below cost of running them in order to stifle competition, which is only possible as long as the government antitrust body is looking the other way.

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> That are offered to the customers below cost of running them in order to stifle competition, which is only possible as long as the government antitrust body is looking the other way.

Twitter as best as we can tell is not offering services below cost to customers.

The free users are not the customers. The paying users purchasing ads are using the services to derive value from the population of free users on the platform.

If you want to reform this, target how companies convince people to give up their data in exchange for functionality rather than for money.