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If the spirit of the antitrust law is to protect consumers from enshittification, then yes. But as written to the letter of the law, no, as this would not crea
by ivanmontillam 4mo ago
If the spirit of the antitrust law is to protect consumers from enshittification, then yes.
But as written to the letter of the law, no, as this would not create a monopoly. More consolidation yes, but a monopoly technically not.
- lenerdenator 4mo agoGiven that the whole point is to prevent consolidation that is to the detriment of consumers, well, yeah.
- ivanmontillam 4mo agoyeah, but who's to say Fox is gonna screw up this one? Like the government saying: "Sorry Fox, you cannot have this one, this one is too good for your dinosaur management." Since that's a very dangerous government hand meddling, I guess the correct move is to let it happen (to our liking or not).
- lenerdenator 4mo ago> yeah, but who's to say Fox is gonna screw up this one? I mean... gestures widely