Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one::undefined

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, there the FTC was with a clear market that Microsoft would have a monopoly over should the merger go through. They had Microsoft on the ropes, but, before they could finish them, Microsoft pinky promised prices wouldn’t go up. And that was that, no threat of a monopoly and the merger could go through.

        … the current antitrust ruling guidelines make enforcement basically impossible.

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          It was more that George w Bush was elected. And cracking down on monopolies is against the code of fascists. Ideally they want to be in charge of all the monopolies. So he more or less called off the suit just as they were about to close in on Microsoft.

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          Yeah, there the FTC was with a clear market that Microsoft would have a monopoly over should the merger go through.

          Which merger are you referring to here?

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      Hell, I won’t believe it even when I’ll see it. Likely some loophole will be found to dodge this in one way or another.

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        Not to be pedantic, but isn’t that the same as “I’ll believe it when I see it”? You’re just saying it won’t happen

        • ELI70@lemmy.run
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          There is mods on lemmy? I just found out there is also karma, why are we recreating a toxic authoritarian shit hole but decentralized?

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            Instances have to be created and run by somebody, so we automatically have a bunch of admins in the loop.

            Then somebody has to make communities on the instances. That involves choosing the purpose of the community, and writing any relevant description or guidelines. So again you inherently start with somebody in charge of the community.

            But none of them answer to a corporate overlord. Things are run the way the people decide. And if the people disagree, they can run different communities or instances. There can easily be unmoderated communities, and I’m sure there are.