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This is one of my opinions that people suspect is insincere tech shilling but really is not. I just don’t think antitrust logic works at all on distribution aggregation. It works in production and buying (monopoly, monopsony) because of rivalrous physical goods.
The reduction ad absurdum is really absurdum. Attention in a way is created by whoever commands it. The macro is limited at 18h/day * 7.5b, but that’s potential, not actual. If all media magically shuts down, local conversation claims it all.
It’s simpler to see when the attention-pool creator is an individual rather than a platform. Remember when people were arguing Trump shouldn’t be allowed to block people from reading his tweets because freedom of information around public statements? What happened there btw?
But does the “common” in common carrier have any connection to the “commons” as in the tragedy of the commons?
Have you seen the state of Amtrak? It’s tragic 
I think this may be rooted in the whole "data is the new oil" and information as commodity view, which is so off base. data isn't data isn't data isn't data A bucket of information is not equivalent to another But this "data as oil" and "behavioral exhaust" meme is rampant
Yep, @stratechery discuses this in aggregation theory & antitrust: A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internethttps://stratechery.com/2019/a-framework-for-regulating-competition-on-the-internet/ …
Hadn’t thought of it that way, great point
I hear what you’re saying but it’s a little more subtle than that. *Synchronized* attention is way more valuable than merely aggregated attention. The synchronous (or, as I’ve termed it, “joint attention”) of a society or group is scarce, and should be treated as a Commons.
The power of viral, attention commanding software like Twitter/FB/Tiktok is that they can *mint* that synchronicity. Much like a concentrated laser pulse can blind you, a synchronous memetic pulse is infinitely more powerful than the same amt of attention smeared out over days.
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