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If people don't like it, they are free to direct their governments to enact and enforce anti-trust laws that address these platforms.
by Maybestring 8y ago
If people don't like it, they are free to direct their governments to enact and enforce anti-trust laws that address these platforms.
- oblio 8y agoAnd Google is free to use its billions of dollars of stashed away money for "lobbying". I'm sure it's going to be a fair fight between the little guy that has a million other worries in his little life and the corporation whose business model is being threatened and therefore will have a laser like focus across years or even decades.
- jadedhacker 8y agoYou're right. That's why we need stronger medicine. Anti-monopoly sentiment is rising quickly.
- staplers 8y agoLaws don't protect consumers or enforce moral obligation and you know it. They serve as a facade to the population to keep society from disintegrating. Direct boycotting of companies forces change very quickly.
- literallycancer 8y agoThe state can be very effective at breaking up monopolies, if there is the will. You'd be surprised.
- Maybestring 8y agoI don't know it. Laws get written and enforced for lots of reasons, enforcing morality and protecting the population are among them.
- superkuh 8y agoIf people don't like a product or service then they simply shouldn't use it, no matter how many of their peers and friends do. It's really simple and doesn't involve bringing in (literal) government guns that'll just end up controlled via regulatory capture anyway. Be responsible for your own choices.