• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The government “not touching the internet” is how we got here when NN rules were rolled back by that shit eating, giant Reese’s cup drinking, FCC chairman that we had under Trump.

    Not sure if we can do anything about enshittification though. That is shareholders demanding the line go up and I don’t think we can change people’s desire for greed.

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      1 year ago

      We absolutely can. Break up every company at 999 mil and we‘re golden. It’s the lack of competition that makes enshittification possible.

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        Yep. There needs to be a legally mandated market cap after which the federal government automatically supervises the company breaking into smaller competitors.

        Or, ideally, liquidated and sold a department at a time to existing competitors, to ensure actual competition.

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          Or, ideally, liquidated and sold a department at a time to existing competitors, to ensure actual competition

          Oh my sweet, summer child…

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            Yeah, yeah. Wishes not miracles, and all that. I’ll take world peace and a pony, too.

            But there’s value in discussing where the target belongs.

            As long as we’re belaboring the point, mehacompanies should be require to sell divisions of their choice (cough Amazon Web Services cough.) to competitors to stay below the market cap. That way we don’t create a cliff, but still see things broken up.

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          The laws and regulations that make these behemoths able to exist should be fixed. Stop putting worse regulations on top of bad ones.

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            Sounds like we agree in principle.

            I’m willing to advocate for the kind of hammer that might scare some of these players into taking legal reform seriously.

            I’m perfectly willing to accept other legal solutions.

            I am also perfectly willing to support an administration bent on burning down the big players that are fighting for monopoly control.