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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:39AM (#25778466)
> This is the free market at work.

It is not. The “free market argument” does not account for entrenched monopolies who buy up - or shut down -competitors long before they can become threats.

Anti-trust laws, which have absolutely no teeth since the 80s (and every then...), are not incompatible with free market capitalism.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by x86_64Ubuntu on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:01PM (#25778836)
>...Anti-trust laws, which have absolutely no teeth since the 80s (and every then...), are not incompatible with free market capitalism.

That's the first time I've ever heard that. Generally, libertarians will state that the existence of monopolies is an outcome of government intervention.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by ralusek on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:40PM (#25779396)
This is a strawman of free market advocates. SOME monopolies are the outcomes of government intervention.
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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:01PM (#25779706)
That only works if companies are perfectly spherical cows, and the market is frictionless vacuum at 0K. In real world, monopolies are an attractor in the free market system.
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