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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 15:00:49 EST lnxw48a1

Apparently, the FTC (and 48 state attorneys general) are suing #Facebook over its monopolistic practices, including buying up emerging competitors.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/25/facebook-ftc-lawsuit-440645 [www politico com] CAUTION: #JavaScrippled

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html [www cnn com]

https://news.yahoo.com/states-ftc-suing-facebook-alleged-193833264.html [news yahoo com]

The biggest question on everyone's minds should be where is #USDOJ? They should have sued back when Facebook bought #WhatsApp and #Instagram ... or at the least, been actively involved in prosecuting this lawsuit. It really does seem like DOJ's beef with #Google is that the bribes ^W political contributions weren't large enough or didn't reach the right person.
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1. Late complication tangles FTC’s decision on suing Facebook
  
  from POLITICO
  
  The case would be the next stage of Washington’s legal crusade against Silicon Valley, after the Justice Department sued Google in October.
2. Dozens of states and the FTC sue Facebook for alleged anticompetitive behavior
  
  from CNN
  
  Dozens of states and the federal government sued Facebook on Wednesday in twin antitrust lawsuits, alleging that the social media giant has abused its dominance in the digital marketplace and engaged in anticompetitive behavior.
3. States, FTC suing Facebook for alleged antitrust abuses
  
  If successful, the two cases could lead to the first court-ordered breakup of a U.S. corporation on antitrust grounds in decades.
1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 17:14:59 EST GeniusMusing
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  @lnxw48a1
  The real question is will it continue forward after the next govt. is in place.
  
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  1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 18:08:31 EST lnxw48a1
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    The good thing appears to be that the states and the FTC seem to have filed separate suits. If FTC.next() decides to fold, hopefully the states will stay the course and get some verifiable and enforceable restrictions on FB's conduct (and break off pieces acquired for monopolistic purposes such as WhatsApp and Instagram ... and maybe some homegrown pieces that arguably fall in other markets and have been subsidized by their main business).
    
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    1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 18:30:36 EST lnxw48a1
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      I repeat more clearly: #USDOJ's absence from this lawsuit (and their failure to file it when the offending purchases occurred) has "corruption" written all over it. #DOJ lawyers should be the courtroom face of this trial, not some private firm that FTC has to hire because the so-called Justice Department refused to do its job.
      
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2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 19:58:44 EST lnxw48a1
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  https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105353098520172190
  
  " And if FB fights this for a decade the way IBM fought its antitrust action, fine - IBM outspent the entire DoJ antitrust division every year for 12 years (Bork called it "antitrust's Vietnam"), but even though Big Blue wasn't broken up, they had their spirit broken.
  
  It was fear of another tangle with antitrust regulators that caused IBM to sit idly by while Phoenix cloned the PC ROMs and created the PC clone industry, which became the US computing industry.
  
  https://nu.federati.net/url/278827 "
  
  Part of a series of at least 20 posts.
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  1. 'IBM PC Compatible': How Adversarial Interoperability Saved PCs From Monopolization
    
    from Electronic Frontier Foundation
    
    Adversarial interoperability is what happens when someone makes a new product or service that works with a dominant product or service, against the wishes of the dominant business.Though there are examples of adversarial interoperability going back to early phonograms and even before, the computer...

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