• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The US Government hasn’t given a shit about harmful monopolistic practices in a long time. They only pretend to care from time to time to force large companies to start donating to politicians.

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      6 hours ago

      “A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.

      • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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        5 hours ago

        Right, because the single anti-trust action against Microsoft in the 90s is definitely all that was justified during the rise of the tech giants.