[CharlesW]

> Not mentioned: there would be a single gatekeeper for the internet, Cloudflare.

I don't get it. Can you point out where Cloudflare gains the power to prevent Google or any other company from doing the same?

[ceejayoz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

It's not impossible. But it's hard.

[acdha]

How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world? A natural monopoly is a big problem for ISPs but they don’t do last-mile and they don’t appear to be anywhere close to being able to manipulate thr transit market.

[ceejayoz]

> How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world?

Did Google need that to dominate search?

[acdha]

No, and they didn’t have a natural monopoly there either.

[ceejayoz]

I'm not sure I'd agree.

https://www.promarket.org/2017/05/09/google-close-natural-mo...