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by hammock 3131 days ago
>only if walmart and ISPs are a monopoly

This is false. Under US antitrust law, /monopolistic behavior/ (that is, behavior that tends to create monopolies), e.g. predatory pricing and very large mergers, is what's generally regulated. It's not actually illegal to be a monopoly per se, and you don't have to be a monopoly to fall afoul of antitrust law.
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jakelarkin 3131 days ago
right but typically the company has to be close to a monopoly for the federal gov't to scrutinize their actions. and the bureaucratic/legal bar for monopoly has been contorted quite far from the common sense one, especially in the case of ISPs.
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steveax 3131 days ago
WRT antitrust, what’s generally regulated these days is nothing, nada, zilch.
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hammock 3131 days ago
I wonder if immigration hardliners feel the same way about lack of enforcement at the border.
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pas 3130 days ago
They sure do, but that doesn't make it any more true.

"Assuming that the estimates are correct, got aways have fallen significantly since 2006. In that year, Border Patrol estimated over 600,000 aliens successfully crossed the border and evaded USBP. By 2011, that number had evened out to just under 100,000, where it has remained until today."

https://cis.org/Huennekens/Enforcement-Estimates-DHS

Plus hardliners are very much disputing that some refugees are fleeing from real danger.

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