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Re:A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broa... by quibbler on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:22PM (#24983559)
How do you create such conditions if you are not the government? Who does the creating?
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Re:A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broa... by heavyset_go on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:50PM (#24983825)
Imagine a company whose elected board members believed that the company should abandon its current market, should be scaled back or shouldn't even exist, and they enacted policies and made hires in accordance to those beliefs. That's what's happening in the US government.
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Re:A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broa... by andromeduck on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:52PM (#24984973)
Private equity is a thing and spin offs are not uncommon.
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Re:A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broa... by heavyset_go on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:04AM (#24990219)
Yes, I made my comment with those in mind.
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