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Interesting take on remedies, but I wish it had linked out to a serious exploration of why the consumer harm standard isn’t sufficient and what would be future
by topkai22 8y ago
Interesting take on remedies, but I wish it had linked out to a serious exploration of why the consumer harm standard isn’t sufficient and what would be future legal grounds to justify regulatory action.
Just outright banning any big company from acquiring another company seems terribly distortive and unwise.
- UncleEntity 8y ago> ...but I wish it had linked out to a serious exploration of why the consumer harm standard isn’t sufficient... Because being a monopoly isn't illegal and (from TFA) companies like Amazon benefit consumers through lower prices. Basically they have to invent a crime to fit the deed.
- ethbro 8y agoSuch is the fallibility of laws written by humans. The writers of the relevant laws (~1900 - 1950, from memory) were all pre-digital networking, just as the writers of the Constitution were pre-corporation (~1850, royal charters ignored).