The Antitrust Division sued Visa for levying a private sales tax on every merchant in America. It's about time. The DOJ is going to win, as this case looks a lot like the case against Google search.
From 2020-2024, rent prices spiked by a third. How much of that is due to collusion by corporate landlords and a software coordinator? And where is the Fed?
Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.
Today, Apple unveiled new AirPods that can function as hearing aids, made possible by Joe Biden's choice to have the Food and Drug Administration break the incumbent hearing aid cartel.
The Antitrust Division finally sued RealPage for orchestrating a conspiracy among corporate landlords and illegally hiking rents for millions in cities across the country.
Anti-trust Georgism 🥰
Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.
Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by excluding rivals from the general search engine market in order to maintain its monopoly. What happens now?
It is a major blow to Alphabet, Google's parent company, and could reshape how technology giants operate.
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman gave $10 million to Harris' campaign and demanded an end to Biden's tariff and antitrust policies. Bernie Sanders reacted angrily.
With Joe Biden not running for re-election, his running mate Kamala Harris is now in the spotlight. Her record on monopolies and financial concentration is mixed. Will she cede populism to the right?
Aoc can't run for president yet.
4% of all the money in America flows through a few mafia-like health care conglomerates. The FTC just released a ground-breaking report on how they operate. And it is gearing up to sue.
Y'all are why people hate the fediverse.
This is a case where it seems the elite consensus drove a change in culture whereas the gay marriage thing seems to have only happened once it became a norm across society.
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
This argument is pointless. Neither of you is right. Arguing for or against optics is pointless.
This argument is pointless. Neither of you is right. Arguing for or against optics is pointless.
How The Jetson's Lost to Black Mirror
A local auto mechanic has to deal with so many junk fees that he's afraid of the future. And why wouldn't he be? The future isn't what we thought it could be.
I don't think you can use gpl for anything but code. Creative commons license would be more appropriate.
Consent isn't legally required if it's fair use. Whether it's fair use remains to be ruled on by the courts.
In 2016, Donald Trump went after CEOs so often that the Wall Street Journal set up a tracker of stocks whose leaders he insulted. No longer. What happened?
Hollywood studio pledges to keep the Drafthouse model going
Why is this economy so difficult to manage? The macro statistics are hiding the experience of being cheated.
Google has a political machine run by an operative Josh Wright. Wright just went down in a sordid scandal. What this saga shows is far more than the antitrust establishment wants you to see.
In an astonishing move, Google cut a check to the U.S. government over an antitrust case, in the hopes of avoiding a jury trial. And it argues such jury trials are unconstitutional.
The "People's Lawyer" Jonathan Kanter wants to make concerts and live events more affordable, and today the Department of Justice filed suit to make it happen.
In response to recent antitrust charges, Live Nation claims it is barely profitable. But then quietly it also just flagged internal accounting issues on its investor docs. What is going on?
The thing is I use reddit mostly for fun stuff. I took out a lot of the political stuff that was getting me down. There's not nearly as many niche cute cat subs or active hobbyist game subs on lemmy.
I've been on lemmy like 2 years. I like it but I wouldn't say I've gotten used to it.
I like lemmy but reddit is still difficult to replace due to lack of content and active communities. But I ain't using the official app so I guess here we are.
This isn't quite true. Physical medicine also has many diseases that are just grouped together symptoms with unknown etiology. They are referred to as syndromes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndrome
Do you believe that there can be no such thing as good or bad branding? Do you think that design work has no value?
I beg Foss devs to work on their branding. Forgejo? How's that even pronounced?