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I don't understand why you would "Break-Up" Amazon? Why can't we just have common rules that says "Hey, we will fine you $50M a day you continue to do X,Y,Z?".
by TrapLord_Rhodo 3y ago
I don't understand why you would "Break-Up" Amazon? Why can't we just have common rules that says "Hey, we will fine you $50M a day you continue to do X,Y,Z?". Then we have precedence and law to back up doing monopolistic things.
How does breaking a company work? I mean... we broke up Microsoft and that only slowed them down for a few years.
- rawgabbit 3y agoWhen was Microsoft broken up? I remember the Microsoft was sued for anti competitive behavior but nothing of consequence happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- ceejayoz 3y agoYeah, the breakup was overturned on appeal, and the resulting settlement was watered down into "we'll reduce the number of tentacles between Windows and IE".