Are there „lawfirms“ that specialize on antitrust?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Haui@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

I know I could google it but I prefer to discuss it here:

There are many interesting discussions about antitrust, companies being jerks and corporats making the world worse.

I think it would be cool to have a couple „rogue“ lawyers band together and start making class action law suits against corporations and states for using/enabling anti consumer/anti competitive practices.

I have never been asked to participate in such lawsuits so I assume its not being optimally presented online so far.

Feel free to correct my impression here.

TL;DR: I think we need more ways to fight against anti consumer/privacy stuff in courts all over the world.

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CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Fighting for data privacy doesn’t pay the bills.

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- Haui@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Louis Rossmann would like a word (allthough its r2r in his case and barely touching privacy but it has been said about r2r as well)
  
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  - CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Louis himself stated multiple times that he is fighting r2r beacuse it affects his livelihood and that he’s a piece of shit. While that is an important fight nonetheless, that’s not privacy directly.
    
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Dislodge3233@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Anti trust is probably the wrong word. This indicates actions to breakup monopolies.

You’d want an attorney practicing in consumer privacy or data privacy. I believe they already exist.

My experience is that the government typically handles these cases, but I’m very likely wrong.

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- Haui@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Absolutely possible that they often handle it. It was just the idea that we kind of need something like r/wallstreetbets but with lawyers&for commercial & legislative justice or something. I‘m thinking a little broader than privacy. More like if a sub decides that a topic has 10s of thousands of followers, it is brought before one or more courts with a kickstarter campaign and all. This could be the future of online governing. As in fighting for freedom -> organizing political campaigns -> turning the tide on fascists and autocrats politically and commercially and taking back control of the political landscape.
  
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  - Dislodge3233@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I like the idea. I’m not sure of the risk, because if you lose, then I think you have to pay the other parties legal fees.
    
    If you started a Kickstarter and got good lawyers on board, I’d be willing to contribute. I would need to see the lawyers are well qualified though and preferably only paid if they win.
    
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recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I had a funny+weird idea before where lawyers and lawyer students teach each other in order to file mass class action lawsuits

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- Haui@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But it’s creative. I like it.
  
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