Re:Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details t...
by PeterisP on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:27PM
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It's not about differences in actual behavior or contract terms, but about differences in assertions what behavior is prohibited by a particular law.
Let X be "That other marketplace banning me from offering discounts is a violation of antitrust law".
Let not X be "Me banning vendors in my marketplace from offering discounts is permitted by antitrust law".
You get to pick one and only one position of those - but in most cases there's no conflict; you can ban some practice in your marketplace (and assert that this ban is permitted by law) while at the time doing the same thing yourself in other marketplaces which haven't banned it - as long as you're not legally challenging their right to ban that practice as well, if they should choose so.
Let X be "That other marketplace banning me from offering discounts is a violation of antitrust law".
Let not X be "Me banning vendors in my marketplace from offering discounts is permitted by antitrust law".
You get to pick one and only one position of those - but in most cases there's no conflict; you can ban some practice in your marketplace (and assert that this ban is permitted by law) while at the time doing the same thing yourself in other marketplaces which haven't banned it - as long as you're not legally challenging their right to ban that practice as well, if they should choose so.