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by MBCook 923 days ago
I agree. Why would a judge be afraid of Apple or Google? They don’t give a shit. Neither company is going to hire hitmen.

The judges are following previous rulings and trying to apply them to what are likely novel situations that the law was never intended to cover because it no one foresaw it.

The courts are not how you fix this. The legislature is. Unfortunately that’s too broken to do anything.
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DeathArrow 923 days ago
>I agree. Why would a judge be afraid of Apple or Google? They don’t give a shit. Neither company is going to hire hitmen.

Since it's legal in US to buy political influence (lobby) and since judges and prosecutors are politically appointed and since the said corporations have very large pockets...

To add on that media and public opinion also impacts your career as a justice and money can swing both media and public opinion.

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Vt71fcAqt7 923 days ago
Don't be too sure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_App_Markets_Act

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MBCook 923 days ago
A lot of stuff gets proposed that never gets passed. Or if it does it’s been gutted by then.

I know this is my cynicism saying it will never happen, but when it comes to this kind of stuff it seems to guess correctly quite a lot.

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