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@peterb @dosnostalgic @lunarloony @Tijn

Fair, I'm certainly being overly casual with my definitions. I've provided guidance to the UK CMA on monopolistic behaviour in the digital software/SaaS industry previously, but as an industry specialist, rather that for my legal chops!

Regardless of terminology, I think it's worth considering the potential for abuse that those business kaiju have over far smaller enterprises that have no choice but to do business on terms dictated to them by the large enterprise.

In other industries, similar disparities have traditionally been rebalanced by union action, but there's no model for that when the disempowered party is officially an independent enterprise, even if it's just one person, and the gorilla is a marketplace, rather than an employer.

There are parallels to gig economy and creator rights issues reaching from Uber to freelance journalism, and it's definitely something that there's little prior industrial action to take inspiration from (Ned Ludd notwithstanding.)