Okay, using that definition, Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree, my local regional grocery store, Trader Joe's and Ralph's are monopolies as well. They own their shelves and store space, and are the sole arbiters responsible for deciding what is sold within them.

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stavros 7 hours ago | parent [-]

If you have purchased your own Walmart and corporate still decides what you sell within it, then yes, that is exactly the same.

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tt24 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Okay, so it has to be something you purchase - we're slowly getting closer to the true opinion here.

Sony is a monopoly as well then? They decide what gets sold in the Playstation store. Same with Nintendo.

Ford and Tesla are monopolies, they solely decide what is software is sold or used in their car's infotainment center stores, despite the fact that I have purchased the car!

AWS is a monopoly, despite the fact that I purchase an EC2 instance from them for one year they will not let me run certain kinds of software on it (Parler, some crypto, etc.)

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stavros 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If you purchase a physical device, yes. You don't buy devices from AWS, you rent. I'm not sure what's hard about this.

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tt24 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I notice how you intentionally didn't respond to the other two points, interesting.

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stavros an hour ago | parent [-]

I responded to all the points. What's unclear?

	▲	tt24 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So Ford and Tesla are monopolies?