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Basically because the current philosophy of the US justice department anti trust prosecutions is whether market dominance of the player harms ordinary people or
by sfifs 8y ago
Basically because the current philosophy of the US justice department anti trust prosecutions is whether market dominance of the player harms ordinary people or causes them to incur higher cost. It is not really about actual monopoly power. Google has been pretty careful to stay consistent with this philosophy.
This wasn't always so in the US and it's not the same philosophy in EU. However, it is a valid and consistent view.
- telltruth 8y agoCorollary 1: You are legally allowed to kill all of your competition while not improving your monopoly product as long as you keep your product free. Corollary 2: Human attention is considered equivalent to monetary value of exactly $0 by US government. Corollary 3: You should never trust your government to be smart or do right thing for you.
- sfifs 8y agoCounterpoint: If you strongly want your government to change its approach, organize to change the government. In US, it's very safe to do this without violence but even in significantly less safe places, people have successfully done this peacefully [1] [2] [3] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Delhi_Legislative_Assembly_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Delhi_Legislative_Assem... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_West_Bengal_Legislative... [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2005_Bihar_Legislative_Assembly_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2005_Bihar_Legislati...