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		ocdtrekkie on July 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google This is actually untrue. It's not illegal to become a monopoly. It's illegal to be anticompetitive once you have that market dominance. Google may have achieved it's dominance legally, however, it's conduct since then is illegal.

themacguffinman on July 5, 2017 [–]

I know it's not illegal to be a monopoly, that's actually my point. I was responding to the_mitsuhiko's complaints of Google monopoly in certain areas, to which I argue that Google's monopoly status isn't inherently a problem.

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