• 800XL@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There are a million startups chomping at the bit to create or have their existing app become the TikTok replacement in the event it does get banned.

    This is the nature of American Capitalism. A monopolistic entity is broken up for this reason or that thereby making way for competition. According to all those economists, competition is good and breeds innovation.

    I don’t have a problem with this. Next go for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft too.

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      7 months ago

      This isn’t an anti-trust case, it’s just anti-China posturing and lobbying from Meta and friends bearing fruit. Google and Meta will fight for the users and their monopolies will grow even more menacingly bloated

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      7 months ago

      I mean in all honesty if another app takes over TikTok it’ll just be Instagram reels. It’s already got a lot of cross-buy-in.