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No law, no. But, you understand how monopolies / duopolies / cartels work, right?

Yes, and it's why the people needs to fucking get on the topic of breaking up companies that are too big and concentrated(both political and economical influence). And we just keep approving mergers left and right and complaint why government didn't have laws(we did) to protect us(small~medium sized companies).

Compare to groceries that involves huge supply chain network, selling ads are actually quite diverse and lively.(that's why we have ad blockers remember?) And Toronto Star can use the legislation to block linking, contract out their ad space to who had the highest bid. I donno? Maybe some cam-girl site would want a block on Toronto Star right? If you have a product that are very cost efficient, not subject to abuse compare to what google offers, I bet they would like to try as well.

It’s that they don’t have the reach / coverage / power of the duopoly and can’t realistically compete with them.

What did they do when google purchase adsense and other coming up companies? Who says Toronto Star needs to compete with google on selling ads? They just need enough investment or contract it out to cover their operation cost + some revenue right? You said old time is gone why? because Toronto Star by just selling the ad space directly toward ad clients(like Ford you mentioned) is already not financially feasible? So it is cheaper and more beneficial to just use google or meta or whatever established services? It sounds like common sense to hire good contractor to do specialized jobs right? And if everyone can only buy service from a monopoly, or whatever equivalent terms for small amount of competitors, that's what anti-trust legislation is for.

It just happens that who ever push this "oh this sounds a smart plan" are both business and public policy idiots. The legislation directly shoots the medias they want to protect at their bottom line, it's like threatening your plumber to give you a discount otherwise you are gonna bust your own pipe again and sue them for it.

That’s like saying that if you don’t like Bell Canada’s phone prices, just start your own continent-spanning telephony company.

Yes you literally can(if you qualify from current legislation), and that's why it's fucking stupid to give public funded infrastructure to a privatized company(and what protests we had when that happened?). If you don't like how it is currently now, do more things in politics. oh wait, no one wants to do that get hands dirty job. Remember the old time where TV and press higher ups are buddies with politicians? Who knew they can be more buddies to the social network companies or tech giants?

Which is likely to be polarized for either AMD or nVidia.

Who said it's only GPUs?

Irrelevant to what we’re discussing.

Then why did you bring up their qualification, go to school, honor, blah blah into discussion? A good reporter/journalist reports condensed, easy to under stand facts for things that happened and what might be of effect to their readers. When the traditional media still focus on engagement rate time, social media and influencers find ways to attract majority of people with their short attention spans. They are more effective in deliver message in shorter text/video format, EVEN if they might not be correct on the topic. The "old time" guys are competing with that efficiency, and there are no enough protection that you can implement to stop that.

edit: typos and some sentence brain farts.