Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case

Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait…I haven’t been following the story. Why is him buying Instagram a bad thing legally?

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you buy all the competition, you can set the price/rules.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t buy a company with the intent to stifle competition.

    They tried to compete with insta and failed, and he was concerned with insta’s potential to create features that compete with fb.

    He then said the plan was to invest as little as possible in insta and only add features if competition sprouted up.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That makes sense.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Other than the fact that it happens all the time and nothing happens because, as OP mentioned, most people aren’t dumb enough to put it in writing

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Buying your competitors is a pretty monopolistic practice

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