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Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by kwertyoowiyop on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:06AM (#28852222)
This “everything is fine as long as the price is lower” logic is what’s wrong with our current lax anti-trust laws.
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Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by missedthecue on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:55PM (#28855303)
Why is it wrong? The goal of anti-trust laws isn't to protect inefficient businesses. It's to promote competition, and the entire point of having competition is that it lowers prices for consumers.
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Re:Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promo... by madeofpalk on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:25PM (#28871019)
> It's to promote competition,

What happens when everything is free/subsidised by advertising? How do you assess the competitiveness of Facebook when they don't charge anything to use Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, ...

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