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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by syshum on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:52AM (#25603623)
Why enforce existing law, we can you use this opportunity to create ever more complex laws to ensure stake holders that already abused to the condition the law is purporting to address can maintain their advantage and ensure no new entrants to the market

That is all this does, it protect GrubHub, DoorDash and other large players from competition

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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by jakelazaroff on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:58AM (#25603657)
How, specifically, does this protect GrubHub/DoorDash/etc?
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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by syshum on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:13AM (#25603758)
this law is designed to protect those companies who already made billions on abusing existing laws by making it seem like what they did was legal, a "loophole" in the law that is now "closed" for new competitors

They are not "new entrants" in the market, they have a network effect now so it will be preferable to them to sign exclusive deals with restaurants to further ensure there can not be any competition

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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by SamoyedFurFluff on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:27AM (#25603874)
So the alternative should be that we should continue to funnel VC money into every new predatory impersonation business?

Sometimes it really is a loophole that is now closed, and the government can’t subsequently dissolve all companies they’ve used it, they can only ask companies to stop.

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