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This is actually how anti-trust works - if you decide a company gets too big you Ma Bell it and break it up, its very actionable, just hard.
by hilariously 5mo ago
This is actually how anti-trust works - if you decide a company gets too big you Ma Bell it and break it up, its very actionable, just hard.
- amazingamazing 5mo agoPeople keep bringing up Bell as if the situation now is not just as bad.
- nemomarx 5mo agoAnd they want to do it again and enforce anti trust laws? I don't see any contradiction here. Break up faang and keep a close eye on all these acquisitions the ai companies are doing and why they need to own package management and code editors and etc.
- hilariously 5mo agoYes, breaking up things wasn't bad, it was the completely lax failure to continue this action and to regulate corporations that got us rafts of stupid ass legislation culminating in citizens united. "Too big to fail" companies are just government entities that are not regulated properly.
- MSFT_Edging 5mo agoThe situation now is just as bad, if not worse, which is why people keep bringing up the case of something being done about the monopolies.