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Anti-trust is meant to protect competition against monopolies, not everything against anything evil. At least that's how I've understood it. It'd be hard to ar
by SahAssar 5y ago
Anti-trust is meant to protect competition against monopolies, not everything against anything evil. At least that's how I've understood it.
It'd be hard to argue that Kape is even close to becoming a monopoly.
- missedthecue 5y agoRight. There are dozens of different VPN providers and switching costs are pretty low.
- nitrogen 5y agoAIUI antitrust also covers cartels, e.g. this one from the early 20th century controlling lightbulbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
- SahAssar 5y agoIsn't a cartel a type of threat to competition via monopoly? The wikipedia first-line definition of a cartel is "A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market". The monopoly in that case is by the group.
- nitrogen 5y agoIt seems like a cartel can form without having a collective monopoly. It's the collusion that's problematic, not the combined percentage.
- roywiggins 5y agoThere's no Kape cartel if they just own lots of brands, Kape can't collude with itself...