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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by Nasrudith on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:41PM (#26838845)
Isn't that itself very suspicious that they are going all Calvinball and changing the rules which long stood out of the blue?

Now they say it is a monopoly is a problem after Walmart managed to become the biggest employer in several states and literally becoming the only option in many areas? Now they cite vague unspecified harms while long ignoring concrete ones and claim the ones with no ability to exclude from the market are too far? That just screams "pretext".

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by jkestner on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:08PM (#26841058)
Out of the blue? We’ve been talking about Amazon’s market power for a long time—longer in tech years. If we expect tech companies to move fast, I’d like regulation to be less than a decade behind.
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