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by ethbr1 12 days ago
I'm not sure a growth-obsessed Facebook could have done anything other than destroy social media, in the same way that a growth-obsessed Google couldn't have done anything other than destroy the web.

The only plausible alternate reality I can see would have been one where US anti-trust was vigorously enforced and kept Instagram and WhatsApp from being bought.

But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment.

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> But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment.

A nice hint for legislators to come.