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Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources by politician on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:17PM (#25291398)
Our governments are empowered to change behaviors by threat of force, but we're letting corporations conduct an authoritarian insurgency within our national borders while libertarian apologists cry "free markets" and "consumer choice".

There is no choice and the markets for highly sophisticated technologies are not free or efficient. It's farcical.

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Re:U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources by themacguffinman on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:53PM (#25293780)
If the government really believed that FAANG is conducting an authoritarian insurgency within our national borders, they wouldn't be pursuing antitrust. If that's what you want to argue, fine, but it's not relevant to antitrust action discussed here.

There is plenty of choice, many of which I'm happy with and many of which I'm not. I think it's farcical to say that there is no choice, millions of consumers have chosen freely without coercion from many options. The choices we have today are options that consumers have chosen willingly and repeatedly over other options that no longer exist.

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