I’m quoted, in French, in Paris’ Le Monde newpspaper about the FTC’s revised antitrust complaint against Facebook:
La FTC « joue sur les mots », abonde Ryan Young du think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute. Pour lui, l’autorité s’est juste « arrangée pour exclure TikTok, Twitter, Clubhouse, Discord, et d’autres de ce marché ». « Tout marché est un monopole si vous le définissez de façon suffisamment étroite, et c’est la seule chose que la plainte de la FTC prouve réellement. »
An English-language version of the same story in Techxplore says:
But Ryan Young of the Competitive Enterprise Institute countered that the FTC complaint “relies heavily on wordplay” to define Facebook as a monopoly.
“It argues that Facebook dominates the market for ‘personal social networking services,’ then defines that term in just such a way that excludes TikTok, Twitter, Clubhouse, Discord and others from that market,” Young said.
“Any market is a monopoly if you define it narrowly enough, and that is the only thing the FTC’s complaint successfully proves.”
