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A comment on Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action. Parent comment
Thats literally how anti-trust laws works. Once a company gets too big, certain anti-competitive actions become illegal.
> Why do we even care about fairness now?
It is not really about fairness. Instead, it is that if a company is large enough, certain actions negatively effect the market much more.
If a company is large, then people have few other others, and anti-competitive actions have a worse effect on the market.
If a company is small, it doesn't matter very much if a company is behaving anti-competitively, because people can just use a competitor.
Thats the justification.
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Thats literally how anti-trust laws works. Once a company gets too big, certain anti-competitive actions become illegal.
> Why do we even care about fairness now?
It is not really about fairness. Instead, it is that if a company is large enough, certain actions negatively effect the market much more.
If a company is large, then people have few other others, and anti-competitive actions have a worse effect on the market.
If a company is small, it doesn't matter very much if a company is behaving anti-competitively, because people can just use a competitor.
Thats the justification.