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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by Ancalagon on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @06:50PM (#43189673)
They aren't free. Noticed all the oligopolies around lately?
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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by fatbird on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:00PM (#43189745)
Do you think Bezos has it in mind to take on those oligoplies when he changes the editorial focus to promoting free markets?
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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by ayjay_t on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:04PM (#43189775)
It's not the worst reach
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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by UncleMeat on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:52PM (#43190145)
To Bezos, "free markets" is a world where Amazon is free to monopolize however it wants without interference. It is one where people like Lina Khan are imprisoned or shot rather than placed in positions of power.

What consumers want is a competitive market with many choices that pushes down prices and forced companies to innovate. What Bezos wants is to crush everybody else.

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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by pylotlight on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:38PM (#43190040)
Lately? When was it not like that?
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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by PaulHoule on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:09PM (#43190539)
From 1932 to 1980 or so the government tried to break up big monopolies to encourage competition, both parties pretty much agreed not to do that (there are some real benefits to consolidation) until the last 8 year or so because monopoly power is getting extreme. See https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by tacticus on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:32PM (#43191033)
partly because of astroturfing about "benevolent" monopolies that was pushed on to judges and politicians
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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by inejge on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:17AM (#43191832)
From 1932 to 1980 or so the government tried to break up big monopolies to encourage competition

Starting with FDR and ending with Reagan? I think that the history of US antitrust is more complicated. The first round of trust busting (Sherman Act, Standard Oil) was a generation before FDR, and the period you've highlighted had two great monopolies, AT&T and IBM. I agree that the policy had been pretty much hands off between Microsoft and big tech.

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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by PaulHoule on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:05AM (#43194480)
You're right about the chronology, it did start around 1900 or so.
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