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Anyone is perfectly able to start a competitor to Yelp. If Yelp feels this adds to their value they are more than welcome to do this. Clearly Yelp weighed the p

Anyone is perfectly able to start a competitor to Yelp. If Yelp feels this adds to their value they are more than welcome to do this. Clearly Yelp weighed the pros and cons and decided this would help their business. What’s the issue here? Don’t see how comparing a business to the ccp government is comparable in the slightest. On edit, its clear the author has an axe to grind. Trash article by trash people.

rticesterp 6y ago
Let's say the power company decides to stop providing electricity to people that disagrees with their political views. It's okay right, since anyone is free to start their own utility company?
- zamadatix 6y ago
  Utilities are regulated very differently from "traditional" public companies so you're going to end up with answers around that (which is fine if it's what you intended just giving you a heads up).
- esotericimpl 6y ago
  No, that’s not how utilities work. Also I didn’t see where anyone in the article said they were removing listings. Trash people don’t want to be called trash by people who they treat like trash.
  - rticesterp 6y ago
    Utilities don't work that way since we've made laws that say they don't work that day. That's the point of the article. A false accusation can essentially shutdown a lifetime's worth of work into a business. That's not right and that should be illegal
Hnrobert42 6y ago
The network effect[1] means anyone is not perfectly able to start a competitor. Well, they can start one, but it is not like starting a competing store or restaurant. The comparison to the CCP does seem like an unnecessary stretch. Yelp’s new feature is bad enough on its own. The comparison to the CCP gilds the lily. 1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
- esotericimpl 6y ago
  Then you should petition the government to break up their monopolies. I forgot I was speaking with conservative trash. the free market is perfect except when they get called on being trashy racists. Then it’s a big problem!
  - dang 6y ago
    We've banned this account for abusing HN for personal attacks and ideological flamewar. You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- threatofrain 6y ago
  The network effect is the least sympathetic business moat to run up against, because it's saying "you are way too popular" and nothing else. Very different from talking about restaurants or stores where you have geographic control, which is a far more odious form of monopoly (competition is restricted because the customers cannot reach competitors). Very different from talking about how Yelp owns the underlying infrastructure (roads, the web, etc.) that makes their business possible.

rticesterp 6y ago

Let's say the power company decides to stop providing electricity to people that disagrees with their political views. It's okay right, since anyone is free to start their own utility company?

zamadatix 6y ago
Utilities are regulated very differently from "traditional" public companies so you're going to end up with answers around that (which is fine if it's what you intended just giving you a heads up).
esotericimpl 6y ago
No, that’s not how utilities work. Also I didn’t see where anyone in the article said they were removing listings. Trash people don’t want to be called trash by people who they treat like trash.
- rticesterp 6y ago
  Utilities don't work that way since we've made laws that say they don't work that day. That's the point of the article. A false accusation can essentially shutdown a lifetime's worth of work into a business. That's not right and that should be illegal

Hnrobert42 6y ago

The network effect[1] means anyone is not perfectly able to start a competitor. Well, they can start one, but it is not like starting a competing store or restaurant. The comparison to the CCP does seem like an unnecessary stretch. Yelp’s new feature is bad enough on its own. The comparison to the CCP gilds the lily. 1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

esotericimpl 6y ago
Then you should petition the government to break up their monopolies. I forgot I was speaking with conservative trash. the free market is perfect except when they get called on being trashy racists. Then it’s a big problem!
- dang 6y ago
  We've banned this account for abusing HN for personal attacks and ideological flamewar. You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
threatofrain 6y ago
The network effect is the least sympathetic business moat to run up against, because it's saying "you are way too popular" and nothing else. Very different from talking about restaurants or stores where you have geographic control, which is a far more odious form of monopoly (competition is restricted because the customers cannot reach competitors). Very different from talking about how Yelp owns the underlying infrastructure (roads, the web, etc.) that makes their business possible.