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How do you differentiate "bribes" from "purchasing something that the merchant offered", ie placement as the default search engine?
by ilikehurdles 6y ago
How do you differentiate "bribes" from "purchasing something that the merchant offered", ie placement as the default search engine?
- randall 6y agoExactly. All sorts of BD deals get caught up in this line of thinking. Basically it's anti-competitive when there's already a monopoly and you get money for it? "Give your users a worse experience because they can't pay us, and we need the money."
- Yizahi 6y agoThat will be determined by DoJ, I hope. Personally I see way too many ultra rich corporation's behaviors get a pass just because they strictly don't equal definition of a "bribe". Or how 95% of the whole word market is not a "monopoly" because "look, there is that 2% competitor, free market works".
- jonny_eh 6y ago> That will be determined by DoJ The court will decide (unless the issue is settled beforehand).
- vaccinator 6y agoIf you don't want to get in any trouble, just give it a good name... like in the case of lobbying the US government.