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This is exactly why anti-trust legislation needs to be extended to cover network effect platforms. A permanent ban from GitHub or LinkedIn has a non-negligible
by ampdepolymerase 5y ago
This is exactly why anti-trust legislation needs to be extended to cover network effect platforms. A permanent ban from GitHub or LinkedIn has a non-negligible effect on career progression.
- fastball 5y agoThat actually seems like something that can hypothetically still be solved by the free market. If there are competent employees that are not finding good jobs because they are not on GH/LI, then that is a market opportunity for people to start hiring people who explicitly don't have those things.
- pydry 5y agoThis is the same argument that was used to try and clamp down on anti discrimination legislation. The idea being that since it was "economically irrational" to discriminate on the basis of skin color, the "free market" could therefore take care of it, therefore legislation was unnecessary.
- ampdepolymerase 5y agoThe free market can remain irrational longer than a person can survive without an economic safety net.
- fastball 5y agoRight, but that is what the safety nets are for.