Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook
by lotsofpulp on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:48PM
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>If a company is using its power to do something harmful, write laws against the harmful thing, irrespective of how much power the company has.
I agree, hence my explanation of why there are no laws against "too powerful" companies. It is not an actionable condition.
If a company is using its power to do something harmful, write laws against the harmful thing, irrespective of how much power the company has. Illegalizing shadow profiles of non-users would be a good step forward, illegalizing them only for FB-sized companies would be less good.
If a handful of companies are operating as a monopoly, that's already well-defined as an oligopoly.
I think the only other situation where a company can be too powerful is if they get too much power over the regulators. I expect it's rare to get there without becoming a monopoly or oligopoly, but it's probably not impossible.