• YⓄ乙
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    1 year ago

    Lol FTC is a fucking joke in this country. Nothings going to happen

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      1 year ago

      Amazon is just gonna drag it out until they get a favorable administration to give them a sweetheart settlement.

      Like Microsoft did.

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            1 year ago

            Did they do the same thing in the UK where they were also being held up? No. Was the trump admin particularly hostile to this or the Biden admin particularly lax on it? No. So it has nothing to do with the admin, it’s just they have hoards of lawyers that can exploit loopholes or make good defences.

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              Was the trump admin particularly hostile to this or the Biden admin particularly lax on it?

              On the Microsoft antitrust case?

              The one that started during the Clinton administration and ended during the GWB administration?

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                oh okay, thats the one you’re referring to, not the Activision buyout.

                Yeah im not educated on that one so idk.

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      1 year ago

      Cory Doctorow says this is the best FTC we’ve had in 40 years, and Lisa Khan is “doing the Lord’s work”. I trust him implicitly on such matters.

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        Cory Doctorow says this is the best FTC we’ve had in 40 years

        With all well-earned respect to Doctorow, that bar is pretty low when it comes to antitrust.

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        I’m not sure who that is or if that means you’re serious, but Lina Khan is an absolute joke who is doing way more harm than good. Their case against the Microsoft/ABK acquisition was amateur hour and got laughed out of court. It was so bad it basically made the CMA backtrack lol

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      Is it the FTC’s fault at all? Lina Khan is doing great work, and the US has fought against Microsoft’s monopoly before. The real problem is the judicial system has no interest in joining this fight.