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by njovin 46 days ago
Much in the same way that the company selling tickets and taking a percentage of all ticket resales shouldn't also own the venues which can then force artists to use a specific ticketing provider, thus creating a monopoly.

We have antitrust laws in the US but they do us absolutely no good when the government refuses to even consider enforcing them, which seems to be the case in the past few decades.
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mike_bob 46 days ago
Biden passed some of the toughest anti-trust laws in the past 20 years, but Trump repealed them quite literally in the first month he returned to office, calling anti-trust legislation as "bad for business".
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starik36 46 days ago
The only entity that "passes" laws in this country is Congress.

You mean via executive order? That's not exactly passing a law.

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gmueckl 46 days ago
Executive orders can effectively kneecap any efforts to put laws into effect, as we can see almost daily since 20. January 2025.
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delecti 46 days ago
No, quite the opposite. Laws can kneecap efforts to make executive orders (in contradiction with those laws). That's why he's lost in court so many times about so many of his orders.
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gmueckl 46 days ago
This is ... charitable. Enforcing laws relies on courts which are only reacting slowly to a non-cooperarive administration, which gleefully ignores orders or practices malicious compliance after the damage has been done (and done as fast as possible). Judiciary enforcement is barely existant.

The whole dance is really effective at keeping the administration one or two steps ahead of the judiciary and legislative branch.

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wwweston 46 days ago
Your language more accurately reflects how the US government is supposed to operate, and that's important, we'd all be better off if people remembered that the government has a number of branches with different responsibilities, actually kept track of who controls each, and otherwise understood the system.

It's also more or less true that the Biden administration took more responsibility and initiative in antitrust enforcement:

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/02/biden-ftc-antitrust-...

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-biden-administration...

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