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> Google doesn't owe their customers a fair market. No one does. do you mean this as an exclusively textual interpretation of existing laws? or something else
by grayhatter 6y ago
> Google doesn't owe their customers a fair market. No one does.
do you mean this as an exclusively textual interpretation of existing laws?
or something else entirely?
because I'd assert that any and every agent has the responsibility to act in a fair and balanced way. Both ethically and legally. Alphabet may have found a loop hole in existing laws, but isnt' that the whole idea behind antitrust. You're free to eliminate all your competition by being better than them but not by restricting their ability to compete.
- LatteLazy 6y agoThere are 2 separate issues here: the moral and the legal. The moral I leave to you. Morality and fairness are always matters of personal opinion. I don't think fiddling markets you control is "fair" for what it's worth... The legal is pretty cut and dry. Especially for b2b like this. Maybe we should change the law? But then you're going to have to change it everywhere. Check out the shit supermarkets pull, they're a good example of a market provider that plays both sides. Google might have been unfair, but they're not in the top 10,000 for unfairness in this regard...