• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I’m all for reigning in monopolies, but I actually don’t see how this is anticompetitive.

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          If you want to start a competitor to Spotify or Google music, you will have to pay those fees making it almost impossible for you to compete.

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            1 year ago

            A company giving special access to it’s competition on a platform they control is usually used as an indicator of not being anticompetitive.

            I hadn’t considered it from a “collusion” angle.

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                1 year ago

                Eh, when Microsoft was required to ask you which browser you wanted, they didn’t need to offer every browser, just theirs, firefox and Chrome.

                This could definitely be collusion, but I don’t think that not extending it to all competitiors is what makes it that.

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          How? Special back door secret deals for one and only one company is the definition of anticompetitive.

          Competition is defined as more than one lol

          Edit: I’m special, I am first place! But if you knew it was 1st place of one… I sure hope you think me as noncompetitive…🤣 It’s strange to me to think I’m competitive if I have no competitors.

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      Netflix makes heavy use of Amazon Web Services, specifically S3 Buckets. I’m sure there’s a special deal worked out with them as an anchor client.

      Malls do the same thing. While they’re not in direct competition in the same sense as Google/Spotify or Amazon/Netflix, some stores don’t even pay rent in a mall because it’s expected that they’ll drive traffic to the rest of the stores. 90% sure Victoria’s Secret, Macy’s, etc are some of these anchor stores that very often pay little or negative rent due to the sheer revenue generated by other avenues.