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dang 2y ago
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully, and omit name-calling, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- deleted 2y ago
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- nsokolsky 2y ago
  Hello, I apologize! I've edited the comment now to be much better, thank you for your feedback.
PeakKS 2y ago
The FTC would be well within their duties to obliterate every single tech company in existence
compootr 2y ago
> Lina Khan's policies were very harmful for the tech sector As they should! It's quite literally the whole reason they exist. Email unsubscribe links have worked well, and click-to-cancel hopefully can too! The only opponents of these policies are massive companies who rely on predatorial dark patterns. Everyone with a brain should support these "wasteful policies" because they benefit consumers. I absolutely LOVE having one link to instantly stop being emailed from mailing lists, and I can't be happier for click-to-cancel and related legislation. "oh no, big tech company XYZ will make 0.0001% less money this year!!!" is the energy you're giving
- hackernewds 2y ago
  celebrating saving some clicks vs entire livelihoods jobs and industries for actual people, is the kind of elite disconnect that Trump exploited to win
- nsokolsky 2y ago
  >Email unsubscribe links have worked well, and click-to-cancel hopefully can too! Yes but that's not what my complaints about the FTC are. My complaint is about them trying to stop Microsoft from buying Blizzard or trying to stop Adobe from buying Figma. I don't believe there's such a thing as 'monopoly on video games' or 'monopoly on website design software'. Them working on general, consumer-friendly, sane policies is fine! But they shouldn't be preventing M&As/investments unless critical goods are involved without a substitute - which Call of Duty and Figma clearly aren't.
mrkeen 2y ago
Would your arguments be any different if you switched them arbitrarily? Why can't monopolies instead be "very harmful for the tech sector", and Lina Khan's policies be "not a big deal"?
- nsokolsky 2y ago
  Monopolies can only be harmful for essential goods that don't have alternatives. The water supply is essential. Access to the internet can (perhaps) be essential. "Software to design website mocks" is definitely not essential.

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dang 2y ago

Please make your substantive points thoughtfully, and omit name-calling, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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nsokolsky 2y ago
Hello, I apologize! I've edited the comment now to be much better, thank you for your feedback.

PeakKS 2y ago

The FTC would be well within their duties to obliterate every single tech company in existence

compootr 2y ago

> Lina Khan's policies were very harmful for the tech sector As they should! It's quite literally the whole reason they exist. Email unsubscribe links have worked well, and click-to-cancel hopefully can too! The only opponents of these policies are massive companies who rely on predatorial dark patterns. Everyone with a brain should support these "wasteful policies" because they benefit consumers. I absolutely LOVE having one link to instantly stop being emailed from mailing lists, and I can't be happier for click-to-cancel and related legislation. "oh no, big tech company XYZ will make 0.0001% less money this year!!!" is the energy you're giving

hackernewds 2y ago
celebrating saving some clicks vs entire livelihoods jobs and industries for actual people, is the kind of elite disconnect that Trump exploited to win
nsokolsky 2y ago
>Email unsubscribe links have worked well, and click-to-cancel hopefully can too! Yes but that's not what my complaints about the FTC are. My complaint is about them trying to stop Microsoft from buying Blizzard or trying to stop Adobe from buying Figma. I don't believe there's such a thing as 'monopoly on video games' or 'monopoly on website design software'. Them working on general, consumer-friendly, sane policies is fine! But they shouldn't be preventing M&As/investments unless critical goods are involved without a substitute - which Call of Duty and Figma clearly aren't.

mrkeen 2y ago

Would your arguments be any different if you switched them arbitrarily? Why can't monopolies instead be "very harmful for the tech sector", and Lina Khan's policies be "not a big deal"?

nsokolsky 2y ago
Monopolies can only be harmful for essential goods that don't have alternatives. The water supply is essential. Access to the internet can (perhaps) be essential. "Software to design website mocks" is definitely not essential.