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Instead of this old school "break 'em up" approach, which just allows them to out lawyer the government, why not simply create regulations which criminalize the
by wintermutestwin 5y ago
Instead of this old school "break 'em up" approach, which just allows them to out lawyer the government, why not simply create regulations which criminalize their specific harmful behavior with teeth big enough to make them stop?
Unfortunately, the answer to my rhetorical question is: because theater.
- akersten 5y ago> why not simply create regulations which criminalize their specific harmful behavior It's a lot easier to say "break them up!" and get a rise out of anyone who has any vague sense of having being slighted by said companies than actually defining specific behavior that should be criminalized. Because once the agitators put pen to paper and define the behavior, I bet it looks laughably innocuous.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoSo you will replace one lawsuit which they can 'out lawyer' with a slightly different lawsuit they can 'out lawyer'? I am not seeing a winning strategy here.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoINAL, but it seems to me that anti-trust litigation is far more complicated, costly and time consuming than passing a law that makes (for example) unauthorized data theft a crime.
- mburns 5y agoWhat kind of teeth do you imagine would be required?
- wintermutestwin 5y agoFines that make such practices unprofitable and with repeated crimes, revoke their corporate charter.