Re:Break Up Google
by balanced009 on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:37AM
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Not really.
We, the people, choose the lawmakers (congress) via election.
I still don't see your argument. How is voting power tied to Tim's post?
I never mentioned voting power. You vote to elect lawmakers, and lawmakers draft laws with the assistance of lobbyists + vote to appoint unelected officials responsible for enforcement. Election has no direct relevance here.
"If this was illegal, I'm sure the SEC would be on it" is based on the assumption that laws are infallible text with obvious interpretation, when the history of law enforcement - especially in finance and antitrust - is very fuzzy and about interpretation, with interpretation often down to unelected officials.
Depending on who you ask antitrust is about the impact on consumers (competition, fair pricing, etc), not about whether some particular footnote to a law was violated due to someone misplacing a decimal point.
FTR the US government has historically in fact made multiple efforts to prosecute companies like Google for violations of the law, so...