The US Government hasn’t given a shit about harmful monopolistic practices in a long time. They only pretend to care from time to time to force large companies to start donating to politicians.
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RiQuY@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Is that even legal? Monopolistic behaviour.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
“A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Right, because the single anti-trust action against Microsoft in the 90s is definitely all that was justified during the rise of the tech giants.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
the biden admin was not in the 90s. look up Lina Khan.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
of course it is. apple has been doing it from the very beginning. now android gets the same walled garden.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Like anyone cares outside of EU.