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by blackeyeblitzar 678 days ago
I have to say I’m glad to hear of organizations mobilizing around these problems. Companies above some size reduce fair competition just due to their size, and we need to stop wasting time litigating technicalities with them. Our existing laws and definitions fall really short of recognizing - let alone addressing - the problem (of how competition with them isn’t fair, how it concentrates power, how consumers have little choice). It’s why Microsoft can get away with bundling Teams or abusing Windows users with dark patterns, why Apple can get away with locking down the devices we own with walled gardens and extorting developers with App Store or payment fees, it’s why Google can operate for two decades as a monopoly, and so on. This needs to change, and fast.