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Shouldn't this be illegal? Price dumping in international trade is already illegal, like when China floods the market with electric cars and solar panels. And
by sam_lowry_ 2y ago
Shouldn't this be illegal?
Price dumping in international trade is already illegal, like when China floods the market with electric cars and solar panels.
And I only wonder why EU has put up so long with price dumping in other domains. Like the whole Microsoft world domination strategy that was made possible by intentionally lousy enforcement of its IP.
- Nathanba 2y agoI guess nobody considers it price dumping because it's given away entirely for free. People only see it as price dumping when somebody offers something at a far lower price.. but nobody feels like complaining when somebody is so rich that they throw their money at you for free.
- mrtksn 2y agoI don't know how this can be illegal, although I agree that the practice is pretty harmful in some ways. In the AI age for example, almost all platforms are giving it away for free now and costs huge amount of money for them. They are able to give it for free because their investors expect down the road to make much more money like they did in the Web age and then Apps age. Thanks to the investors of the time we had great run on the web and later in the apps. In one hand it means that sometime in the future if they corner the market and establish a monopoly the service will suffer, will be used for doing bad things or become very expensive, just what the web and apps has become. In the other hand this accelerates the technological advancements and deployment far beyond what would be possible in another business model.
- dumbledoren 2y ago> And I only wonder why EU has put up so long with price dumping in other domains. Like the whole Microsoft world domination strategy that was made possible by intentionally lousy enforcement of its IP. Because eing a US vassal makes it difficult to sanction your overlord.