Olaf Schlüter
1 min readAug 26, 2024

Is it? Actually we have a monopoly on the Internet for about everything aside video streaming services (well, with the streaming services of movie distributors like Disney or Paramount these are monopolies as well) . And when there is no monopol, than there is an oligopol. There is no real competition anymore once a service has collected the majority of users - with networking effects all over the place the rest will flock to the winner. Has Facebook/Instagram/TikTok competition? Has Google with its services (aside E-Mail)? Has Amazon (aside AliBaba)? And Apple is a monopoly by technical design. And then there is a dominant oligopol for backend or edge cloud services: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure. Europe tries to come up with european cloud services for digital souveranity, but yet no european cloud service provider can compete with the Big 3 in most use cases.

Actually I did not read much further as I got the odd impression of listening to a MAGA enthusiast (and I did listen to some): the article is based on a "reality" that does not exist. No correct factual premises up to this point.

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Olaf Schlüter
Olaf Schlüter

Written by Olaf Schlüter

IT security specialist, Physicist by education, believing in God as for the exceptional harmony of the laws of nature to create and support life.

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If you think there’s a monopoly everywhere on the internet you may want to reassess your definition of monopoly.

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