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What's the argument exactly? What prevents competition from starting a new social network or a new messaging app?

Indeed there is a huge number of successful messaging apps (imessage, signal, telegram, wire, wechat, kakao) and social networks (tiktok, snapchat, linkedin, reddit)

I know we're supposed to hate on facebook but what exactly is anti competitive?



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