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The real issue with customer's unions is: how do you get people to make binding commitments to take collective action? Suppose everyone agrees "unless google d
by paultopia 6y ago
The real issue with customer's unions is: how do you get people to make binding commitments to take collective action? Suppose everyone agrees "unless google does X, we'll all switch to AWS/start searching on DDG," how do you monitor and enforce that? (And I have no clue how antitrust law would see the problem.)
Shameless self-promotion: I've speculated in the past that software can help here, eg, by hooking into corporate account APIs to trigger automatic mass cancellation of orders. That's one of the examples of potential "transformative legal technology" in this (sadly paywalled, sorry) academic article: https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047 https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047