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That line of thinking could actually prove beneficial long term. Here's my line of thought: Once people would realize buying multiple products or services from

That line of thinking could actually prove beneficial long term. Here's my line of thought: Once people would realize buying multiple products or services from one vendor gets you into legal trouble, consumers might shy away from big corporations. That would give big corporations an incentive to split up into smaller ones. In the end this is just one aspect of the problems caused by companies getting too big.

AlexandrB 2y ago
I suspect this is wishful thinking. Even people who see news like this probably think: "that could never happen to me". Beyond that, it's very difficult to keep track of all the subsidiaries and "affiliates" a single huge company may have under its umbrella. The article uses the example of DirectTV using AT&T's arbitration clause to claim that lawsuits against DirectTV must go to arbitration: > In multiple class action cases, DirecTV pointed to arbitration clauses in contracts that the plaintiffs had signed – not with the satellite TV company, but with the phone services provider AT&T Mobility, when the individuals had purchased cell phones. DirecTV argued the arbitration language in the cell phone contracts applied to the telemarketing claims, because, years later, AT&T Mobility’s parent corporation acquired DirecTV, making it an “affiliate,” as referenced in the contract’s arbitration language. I didn't know that AT&T's parent company owned DirectTV. Did you?
- repelsteeltje 2y ago
  Good point, I think you are right. Most people have given up on reading fine print on privacy etc. Most people use Google, Meta, Amazon because hey they already have their filthy fingers everywhere already. Resistance is futile. Safe for a bunch of zealots like myself that still try to manoeuvre around Big Tech, using inferior web search, archaic operating systems, local backups, etc. The future is gloomy.

AlexandrB 2y ago

I suspect this is wishful thinking. Even people who see news like this probably think: "that could never happen to me". Beyond that, it's very difficult to keep track of all the subsidiaries and "affiliates" a single huge company may have under its umbrella. The article uses the example of DirectTV using AT&T's arbitration clause to claim that lawsuits against DirectTV must go to arbitration: > In multiple class action cases, DirecTV pointed to arbitration clauses in contracts that the plaintiffs had signed – not with the satellite TV company, but with the phone services provider AT&T Mobility, when the individuals had purchased cell phones. DirecTV argued the arbitration language in the cell phone contracts applied to the telemarketing claims, because, years later, AT&T Mobility’s parent corporation acquired DirecTV, making it an “affiliate,” as referenced in the contract’s arbitration language. I didn't know that AT&T's parent company owned DirectTV. Did you?

repelsteeltje 2y ago
Good point, I think you are right. Most people have given up on reading fine print on privacy etc. Most people use Google, Meta, Amazon because hey they already have their filthy fingers everywhere already. Resistance is futile. Safe for a bunch of zealots like myself that still try to manoeuvre around Big Tech, using inferior web search, archaic operating systems, local backups, etc. The future is gloomy.