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by twobyfour 3115 days ago
And Uber is dumping taxi services by selling them below cost (subsidized by VC) to undermine the competition. Nobody's even tried going after them from that angle.

The US government, at least, basically doesn't enforce anti-trust regulations any more. And even if it did, the current administration's philosophy essentially doesn't include the enforcement of ANY regulations against businesses for the public good.

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> The US government, at least, basically doesn't enforce anti-trust regulations any more. And even if it did, the current administration's philosophy essentially doesn't include the enforcement of ANY regulations against businesses for the public good.

Yup.

2001: "Microsoft is abusing their power to ship their own Internet browser on PCs!"

2017: [Washington DC] "We'd like to place an order for 2,000 Chromebooks, please."

Those things aren't very similar.