> Not mentioned: there would be a single gatekeeper for the internet, Cloudflare.

I don't get it. Can you point out where Cloudflare gains the power to prevent Google or any other company from doing the same?

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ceejayoz 3 days ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

It's not impossible. But it's hard.

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acdha 2 days ago | parent [-]

How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world? A natural monopoly is a big problem for ISPs but they don’t do last-mile and they don’t appear to be anywhere close to being able to manipulate thr transit market.

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ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent [-]

> How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world?

Did Google need that to dominate search?

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acdha 2 days ago | parent [-]

No, and they didn’t have a natural monopoly there either.

	▲	ceejayoz 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure I'd agree. https://www.promarket.org/2017/05/09/google-close-natural-mo...