Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura...
by jakelazaroff on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:58AM
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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
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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
Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura...
by SamoyedFurFluff on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:27AM
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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.