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“We can imagine a social network market that worked more like the current phone system: a user of one social network could post and reach friends who were members of different social networks through interoperability protocols.”

How about SMTP?

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forcing interopariblity and one common social network protocol akin to railroad companies being forced to operate compatible networks would be one of the simplest and straight forward regulations to increase consumer choice and balance out market dominance.

Just for a laugh, have a read about train rail gauges. You think in Australia a small country, this would be a simple problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge_in_Australia

Small compared to what? It's 80% the land mass of the USA, and the sixth largest country by land mass in the world.

I saw the Washington Post describe Victoria as a small state today (in its Covid-19 coverage of the outbreak there). I went and looked up its size to compare to US states - it's bigger than Minnesota and Utah and all but 11 US states. I doubt the WaPo would refer to Utah as a small state.

I think of us as a small country because whilst large in size. we only have 7 largish cities, and 25 million people packed into them. With Sydney and Melbourne having close to 10 million people between them.