[wolpoli]

This is where free market fails, and to fix this, government would needs to outlaw these types of exclusive agreements.

[theturtletalks]

I can’t believe they went after Microsoft for IE, but all of this is fair game. It regulatory capture and it’s rampant in every industry.

[aj7]

We’ve had 50% Republican administrations. Regulatory capture is their technology as they can’t pass anti-competitive legislation, no matter how much they are bribed.

[ISL]

If they do it in an egregiously anticompetitive way, it is already outlawed.

[BoiledCabbage]

People need to stop calling inherent flaws in unregulated capitalism, "regulatory capture".

Unregulated capitalism has flaws - this is one of them. Vertical monopolies are a huge issue period.