Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources
by epistasis on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:49PM
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I hope that this is a sign of increased scrutiny overall, that will lead to the ISP/media conglomerates too. Comcast is extremely exploitive of it's regulatory capture of my local government and has a far more detrimental direct effect on my life than Google does, because I am able to block Google and use alternatives. Though perhaps the investigation around Google is mostly about their customers and not their users, I.e. ad purchasers.
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Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources
by notfromhere on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:44PM
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What about this administration suggests they're really into antitrust enforcement on its merits?
Only reason the GOP is interested in regulating tech is because they believe tech platforms should be forced to carry their political message without restrictions.
Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources
by epistasis on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:46PM
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Forgive my naivete, but based on what I've seen elsewhere I think this administration is so incompetent that they can't get the levers of government to do much of anything, unless it's unilateral actions like tariffs. So I'm not sure that much of the choice to pursue this even comes from temporary political appointees.
Some of the Democratic candidates (e.g. Warren) also support similar measures, so it's not required that this is purely a political play.
Re:U.S. Justice Dept Considering Apple Probe: Sources
by treis on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:09PM
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Charter/Comcast have pretty paltry profit margins compared to Google (especially if you look at the non-NBC parts of Comcast). If they've managed to snag a monopoly through anti-competitive behaviors they're doing a bad job profiting off of it.