Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi...
by snikeris on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:27PM
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> the fact that markets are just as often made unfree by the actions of its private actors.
Example please.
Re:Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semi...
by disintegore on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:18PM
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There are countless examples of anticompetitive conduct going all the way back to prehistory. The legal vocabulary around it pretty extensive.
Since this is HN though maybe these will ring a bell :
* Intel's rebate program (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2010/08/...) which ended up with a $1.2B payment to AMD
* Microsoft's notorious antitrust case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....)
* AT&T abusing its monopoly status and being broken up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T)
Honestly this is such an obvious notion that the fact that you're asking for examples is suspect on its own.
It also seems to place the government in direct opposition with the wants of consumers, without acknowledging at all the fact that markets are just as often made unfree by the actions of its private actors.