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arminiusreturns on Nov 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be sp...

They shouldn't have been allowed to get as big as they are in the first place. Where has the DoJ been on anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws? I'm guessing going through the revolving door. That's why those laws are there, because busting up a monopoly after the fact is much harder than preventing it from merger and acquisitioning it's way to that monopoly in the first place.

avaika on Nov 1, 2018 [–]

How do you imagine companies shouldn't be allowed to grow? "Oh, you already have X customers, you can't get X+1. That would be a monopoly"?

arminiusreturns on Nov 1, 2018 | [–]

That's not what I said. Antitrust/anti-monopoly laws have a strong basis, and it's certainly not "you can't grow". You are attacking a strawman.

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