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by dredmorbius 2654 days ago
Very much the case, and you can thank/blame Robert Bork for this.

Earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18436387#18436772

I'm liking Lina Kahn's take:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

1 comments

Wow, your comment is far better cited than mine. Also, Bork wasn't necessarily wrong for the era he lived in.

I think we don't yet have a good vocabulary to describe the kind of bad behavior we see in large tech firms. People use "monopoly" because it's the first word that comes to mind when a large firm is acting badly, but Google's/Facebook's/etc behavior does not fit our current definition.

Bork was, I'm pretty convinced, far beyond wrong. His rationalisation was tremendously useful to those who benefited from that wrongness.

That's a longer story.