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'monopoly' is a shorthand for an unacceptable abuse of market power

It is not being used literally. Of course FB & Facebook are not 'literal' monopoloies

Your pedantry does not detract from the point being made by the comment above

Are you trying to say that the poster I replied to, who specifically linked to a Wikipedia article about US Anti-trust Law, was not literally referring to US Anti-trust Law? And that I am being pedantic for assuming the parent poster meant what they said about the law they linked to?

Did you perhaps mean to respond to a different comment?

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