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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by bobthepanda on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:52PM (#20073352)
I don‘t think states have ever been compelled by antitrust suits to change regulations; there is no state-level version of the WTO where one can sue about this.

Remaking federal regulation to preempt states is laborious and fraught with difficulty; see Obamacare.

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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by sk5t on Sunday June 02, 2019 @12:00AM (#20073383)
And yet we have the interstate commerce clause, giving the fed a direct line to meddle freely in any matter whatsoever.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by bobthepanda on Sunday June 02, 2019 @05:29PM (#20078367)
Most ISPs exist in multiple states. Divvying up local markets does not really prevent interstate competition or impact interstate commerce, or at least that hasn't been tested in court.
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