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I can't help thinking that a lot of anticompetitive cases will be won outside the US now that the US is in all-out trade war with the rest of the universe.
by seydor 1y ago
I can't help thinking that a lot of anticompetitive cases will be won outside the US now that the US is in all-out trade war with the rest of the universe.
- ChocolateGod 1y agoYou're also about to see a lot of the 'Brussels effect' due to the EUs DMA.
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en
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- Winsaucerer 1y agoI heard they are targeting Andromeda with the next round of tariffs.
- ratelimitsteve 1y agoas long as they leave Squornshellous Zeta alone until I get my mattress
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- benoau 1y agoThe DOJ is literally suing Apple for many of the same reasons right now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2024)
- mikeyouse 1y agoThat was the ‘old’ DOJ, Tim Apple was in the Oval Office a few days ago to pay tribute in gold… it got them exemptions from tariffs and I wouldn’t be surprised if the DOJ dropped this case soon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fd1i4t8bqe7zgj6.cloudfront.net%2F08-07-2025%2Ft_f20a28f313874a99ad0717a463ba36c1_name_3___Vertical_Video_00_01_36_12_Still006.png&w=960 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A...
- saubeidl 1y agoThe corruption is so out in the open, it's ridiculous. It's so unsavory to see Tim Cook grovel like that. No backbone at all, what a pitiful human.
- scottyah 1y agoGrovel? I thought it was making fun of the POTUS. What made it even funnier was that it'd go right over DT's head. Excellent messaging- pleases the wanna be monarch, shows investors that he's willing to work with any country's heads to ensure the success of Apple, and makes a mockery of the office with such a gaudy display.
- mikeyouse 1y ago> Cook presented Trump with an engraved piece of glass designed by a former Marine Corps corporal who works at Apple. The base of the glass plaque was made of 24 karat gold, Cook said, as he set it up on the Resolute Desk in front of Trump. “You’ve been a great advocate for American innovation and manufacturing,” Cook told Trump. Apple, Cook said, is “going to keep making investments right here in America and we’re going to keep hiring in America.”
- TheRealPomax 1y agolooks at all the cases that never happened even well before Trump got elected You should probably be thinking that the only places they can be won is outside the US.
- tossandthrow 1y agoThe US has shown absolutely no willingness to carry out antitrust cases the past many years - at a significant harm to a lot of people. The implied corruption is likely not from these other countries that start making these cases now, but is a persistent feature of US governance.
- ProofHouse 1y agoPrecisely. Trump not smart enough to think about these retaliations. Would in some cases make tarrifs neutral
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoBig Tech isn't exactly Trump's base. Trump collects wins[1] for his base at the expense of his non-supporters. Not sure how this makes Trump "not smart". 1 - Regardless of what you think of tariffs, his base largely considers them wins.
- ljlolel 1y agoBecause he lives in a country. Going to war with half the people around you makes the whole country much poorer.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoWorks both ways.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoThey are gonna win so much they'll be completely indigent before it's over.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoThat's their right.
- tiahura 1y agoThe administration has indicated that the EU shakedown efforts are going to be addressed. It's reasonable to assume that EU crown jewels like LVMH are going to be subject to a reciprocal shakedown.
- gpm 1y agoI strongly doubt that US-Australia trade relationships played any role in the judges decision on this case (and, of course, everything else in this case occurred before Trump was even re-elected). Judges aren't in a role where they are negotiating, or particularly care about, international trade at all. Judges are intentionally separated from the political wing of the state in just about every western democracy.
- xbmcuser 1y agoLol at you believing courts or judges don't follow their countries dictates. Most of the time such cases would be routed to a judge that will do what is asked without making any noise.
- whimsicalism 1y agomaybe wherever you are from that’s true, but not really in the developed anglosphere
- shagmin 1y agoThis stuff is true in the US to some extent.
- whimsicalism 1y agono it's not, but i get that it's "in" to hate on the US political structure. essentially all federal cases are randomly assigned
- shagmin 1y agoI don't think it's widespread by any means but the US Supreme Court has been directly pulled into this exact topic. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judge-shopping https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judg... https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/judge-shopping-explained https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/judg... https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/27/judge-shopping-explainer/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/27/judge-shopping-expl...
- whimsicalism 1y agoSpeaks a lot to the legal process outside the US if that is true..
- barbazoo 1y agoI imagine much of not going after big tech was probably politics and the unwillingness to offend a major geopolitical and trading partner.
- sircastor 1y agoI think what might happen is all these other markets are going to end up “playing fair” while the US remains an abused ecosystem- because it’ll be the only place left Apple and Google can push their advantage.