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A comment on Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House antitrust committee chair.

Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by sjwright on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:37AM (#23572015)
If the US Government wants to place limits on certain fees, they should pass a law limiting such fees.

Meanwhile, it's a bit hypocritical for the US Government to accuse private corporations of ‘highway robbery’ when they themselves are committing (or failing to outlaw) literal highway robbery in the form of civil forfeiture.

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Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by AnthonyMouse on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:02AM (#23572170)
> Meanwhile, it's a bit hypocritical for the US Government to accuse private corporations of ‘highway robbery’ when they themselves are committing (or failing to outlaw) literal highway robbery in the form of civil forfeiture.

Indeed it is. So they should address both, not use the current existence of one to excuse the other.

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Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by sjwright on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:18AM (#23572284)
To be clear, I wasn't saying that one excused the other. I was only commenting on the congressperson's poor choice of words.
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Re:Apple’s App Store fees are ‘highway robbery’ – House anti... by mirekrusin on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:05AM (#23572200)
That's what they want to do, it will probably end up like that - Apple and others will be capped to how much fees they can charge.

EU did this for roaming charges already.

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