If police only gave speeding tickets to those with Trump bumper stickers, would that not be a misapplication of the law? I think most people would think that is wrong even if they all happened to be speeding.

> If police only gave speeding tickets to those with Trump bumper stickers, would that not be a misapplication of the law?

Surely that depends where you live. Seattle (where I live)? Yeah, that would be obvious discrimination. A few counties further inland? Probably not statistically significant.

I’m not sure how or if that reasoning applies to FTC purview, but my intuition is that corporations of the size that might warrant interest aren’t likely to be partisan targets in any stable or persistent way.

The difference here is that these "Trump bumper sticker" cars are going 100+ over the speed limit -- why the fuck would you waste your time arresting 10 people going 5mph over instead?

The cable companies are much much worse than Amazon.

What you're saying makes it seem like you think that any big tech monopoly is a Trump bumper sticker, and that any enforcement against them is unfair.

Sure, if there's a trend of abuse, there are remedies, lawsuits, elections, impeachment, etc.

That trend doesn't exist now, and you can't use it as a shield against the law and commit crimes as you please.