Re:Should digital monopolies be broken up?
by wpietri on Friday November 28, 2014 @12:24PM
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It turns out that anticompetitive, monopoly-maintaining behavior is breaking the law. It didn't used to be, which is why we got antitrust law in the first place.
Every company tries to gain market share, but society, which creates the markets in the first place, suffers if they gain too much. That's one of the structural problems of capitalism.
If we are in favor of healthy free markets, we can't stand by as they decay into monopolies, which are not markets at all.
Every company tries to gain market share, but society, which creates the markets in the first place, suffers if they gain too much. That's one of the structural problems of capitalism.
If we are in favor of healthy free markets, we can't stand by as they decay into monopolies, which are not markets at all.