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The fact that like four companies can literally just buy the entire fucking market is why I will never respect capitalism. I'm no Marxist, I respect the value of what the free market can offer, but I'm for heavily regulated markets. There doesn't have to be rhyme or reason, literally just someone saying 'nah, you can't do that'. "Hey your acquisition will negatively impact the market for more than 20% of consumers, so we're just going to tell you 'no' and you can't do shit about it."
I'm old enough to remember a time Microsoft was called a 'monopoly' because they simply included Internet Explorer with Windows.
Now look at the fucked world of big business today.
Google has been ignoring the sherman anti-monopoly laws for decades -
using their monopoly to subsidize and control other industries (eg youtube)
Democrats control our courts and give it a pass
All politicians fall in to four categories on this.
Retarded boomers who don't understand dick shit and therefore cannot be counted on to do anything.
Those having their pockets filled with lobbyist shekels.
Political operatives who have a weaponized interest in the outcome.
"What are you complaining about? Line go up!!!"
Literally nobody cares otherwise. Europe is fucked up but at least they have some major legislation in place to protect consumers, like the GDPR.
You can't be serious. The GDPR is a bad joke that exists for the EU to use revenue from fines to subsidize their failing welfare state.
At least go with something like the "Directive on repair of goods" that may actually help a customer someday, despite it being wrapped up in "green" nonsense.
Won't someone think of the poor tech companies?
The GDPR is a massive package of privacy protections. Tech companies cried about it for a reason and not because it was 'poor little us', it was because it shut off their revenue stream of monetizing "free" customer data.
The entire reason for the cookies opt-out we have now is because of the EU. Wow, how terrible, making websites tell you what bullshit they're secretly installing on your computer without your knowledge and consent. How awful! Someone fetch my fainting couch!
California has the CCPA/CPRA which gives legal enforcement for customers wanting tech companies to fuck off and not monetize their data.
Article 17 of the GDPR forces tech companies to delete all your personal data upon request.
Literally fuck right off to hell with your shitty defense of 'big tech'. How many of those poor wittle trillionaire companies have gone out of business because of "fines to subsidize their failing welfare state"?
Oh right, literally fucking zero have. They have more money than ever before. So fuck them. These companies are shit and offer nothing of value but fake make-work nonsense to prop up fake economies with business that produce nothing. If Europe wants to liquidate them into nothingness, why should I care? A shitty evil government vs. shitty evil corporations and you think I'm gonna root for winners there?
GDPR has done fuck all to protect consumers. As a matter of fact it allowed companies like Google to remove consumer owned content from places like the Play Store. It resulted in a massive robbing of consumer digital goods with zero recourse. And that was just the start. It's also resulted in endless popups all over the web, all the while boxing out small players by forcing them to jump endless hoops over tracking they never wanted to implement but were forced into because all the industry tools (conveniently made by big corporations) require it, wasting endless time and money they don't have to spare.
Imagine bootlicking the EU for regulatory capture, forced thievery, and shitting up the web with popups well beyond the scale of the worst we saw in the 00s. Funny how these consumer protections only ever harm the consumer while ensuring more monopolies for big companies, huh.
Nice on paper. Now let's try it in practice. Kamala is president. "Your acquisition is unequitable to 'marginalized' people for some reason we pulled out of our ass, so we're telling you 'no' and you can't do shit about it. And don't bother asking again, we don't like you so you're not allowed to do business anymore."