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It would never need to apply to HN. The site would never come close to meeting the definition of market dominance that Facebook, Google and other big tech platf
by adventured 6y ago
It would never need to apply to HN. The site would never come close to meeting the definition of market dominance that Facebook, Google and other big tech platforms do that is drawing the regulated utility comparison.
The Federal Government is also not going to generally worry about applying anti-trust to the only pizza parlor in a small town or worry about forcing it to operate under competition and behavior agreements designed for giant monopolies.
Properly we don't apply all competition rules and restraints on all companies/entities in the same way, as all companies are not equally powerful or capable of controlling commerce.
- thereare5lights 6y ago> The Federal Government is also not going to generally worry about applying anti-trust to the only pizza parlor in a small town or worry about forcing it to operate under competition and behavior agreements designed for giant monopolies. Reality suggests otherwise. The biggest companies have the most money to throw against enforcement and lobbying to protect themselves. It's why the IRS pretty much stopped auditing the big fish and only goes after the little fish now.