Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources
by paulryanrogers on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:25AM
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Consumers and competing businesses were still harmed during Standard Oil's rise. Why wait until there are no practical alternatives left?
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Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources
by themacguffinman on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:04PM
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Other businesses are always harmed during the rise of a dominant business, that's what happens when a dominant business takes marketshare away from you. The question at hand is whether they took their share unfairly. In Standard Oil's case, the government found that they did, which maybe happened too late in Standard Oil's case.
But even though it takes time to determine wrongdoing, we still prosecute crimes after they happen instead of before for obvious reasons. You wait until there is evidence of harm to consumers. Maybe the government has evidence, this is just an early article after all, but again, it's hard to imagine someone unable to stop using Facebook or Instagram or whatever, there's a lot of social media out there.
Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources
by paulryanrogers on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:46AM
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Where to draw the line is the controversy. Consumer harm isn't always obvious or easily reversible given corporate adversaries with more resources than mid-sized countries.