• Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    92
    ·
    8 months ago

    This headline implies that EUs moves are agressive and brutal while they arent. Breaking up monopolies is an ordinary step of keeping the market competitive.

    • jabjoe@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      ·
      8 months ago

      It should be ordinary. But it isn’t. Which means the market stagnants as competition basically stops. Like how Microsoft basically closed IE development when IE “won” the browser market by achieving monopoly.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      8 months ago

      There is the laissez-faire approach of abolishing patents and copyright so that these monopolies at least couldn’t squash competitors on that basis, and then they’d slowly die without breaking them up by force.

      But that’s not plausible now.