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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by Aeolun on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:01PM (#25089936)
It’s fairly hard to force someone that doesn’t want to to sell in any democracy.
Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by ivalm on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:31PM (#25090087)
No, but you can make that their suppliers break contract, their clients move away, etc. One can force a sale simply by making business untenable. Monopolistic and anti-competitive behaviors can happen without breaching private property laws, this is why government has to also fight anti-competitive behaviors.
Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by chii on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:33PM (#25090101)
The cost of doing this in a democracy is more difficult. The cost of extortion is lower in an authoritarian regime because there are fewer people to bribe.
Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by konjin on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:52AM (#25091086)
Yet somehow the richest man on China hasn't managed to do that.

The systems are not equivalent. Trying to say one is better is short sighted and self defeating.

The US if it does not deal with monopolies is headed to a worst of all possible worlds.

Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by ashtonkem on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:25AM (#25090658)
Only the modern experience would lead you to believe that. The gilded era is a good example of how forced sales and/or abusive monopolies are not incompatible with democracy at all.
Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by cynusx on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:41AM (#25091054)
It was a democratic process that brought the anti-trust cases and established competition rules.

Democracies are not perfect and are always evolving

Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by rorykoehler on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:37AM (#25090542)
Amazon are pretty good at it.