Well, not really, because you could use android, and it commands 70% of the global market share
Also, the way the law is, you have to have both a monopoly & also be causing substantial harm to the public. I.e. you can have a monopoly if it's really nice and more like a public utility. So after the Microsoft antitrust case (for basically same thing), it's been very hard to justify breaking up tech companies or banks
If a company acquires its monopoly by using business acumen, innovation and superior products, it is regarded to be legal; if a firm achieves monopoly through predatory or exclusionary acts, then it leads to anti-trust concern
For example, business can defense that its business conducts bring merits for consumers
(Wikipedia)
What happened with Microsoft browser tie ins antitrust?
Ultimately, the Circuit Court overturned Jackson's holding that Microsoft should be broken up as an illegal monopoly. However, the Circuit Court did not overturn Jackson's findings of fact, and held that traditional antitrust analysis was not equipped to consider software-related practices like browser tie-ins
So in short, Apple's legal / business strategy here is totally solid. Arguably helps users, defended by precedent, and doesn't dominate market share. Of course they have to debate all this
The thing with Canada is exactly the definition of protectionism that I mentioned. He successfully did not start new wars afaik, and the overall stance is "fuck the world, America #1, peace out or ill nuke you"
Oh he's got policies and they are popular. Some of them are totally nuts but the core of it is "American industry first" - his domestic and foreign record reflect this. He's not big on war, which is a relief, and is big on protectionism (i.e. restrict trade to help local economy). He's the party of tax breaks for business & favourable trade & strong borders & Christian nationalism & not starting beef internationally
Overall, despite all the drama and racism, at least he's not a warmonger (like pretty much everyone else). He just did one little local coup/riot. "Boys will be boys" as they say XD hahaha
My opinion is that it's super legit, basically the only lasting icon of creativity and freedom of speech. Feels like what the whole internet used to be like, during the golden age before everything was captured by corps that fear brand damage and legal repercussions. People still repost 4chan content to all other media obsessively. Anyway 4chan is where it belongs, in the background. If it was more popular it would get totaled
I'm a digital ~anarchist. All this regulation doesn't help, it just makes the Internet more ridiculous, and raises the barriers to entry - fuck em. Rather than regulating some sane browser features, we left it to every site to implement a cookies popup, and they are unique enough that they aren't easily filtered. So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!! Really solved that shit. I don't trust these assholes, it's all gonna get lobbied weird and big money pretty much always wins
Real open source is the answer. Common goods for common people, not led by capitalism, but led by shared infrastructure needs that benefit all. Protect the rights to anonymity/privacy online, instead of helping big tech deanonymize everyone. Uphold the values of the constitution of the USA, but in the digital space. And otherwise fuck off, govt
This is a false dichotomy, you can fear both death and pain. In this case the quote starts with the premise that you're dying anyway. A much more interesting question is 100% death by machine gun VS 80% chance of death by stabbing. Would you risk the 20% chance of survival in the face of massive pain and perhaps being crippled? Or would you just take the fast death?
I'd like to think I'd take my chances with living. In which case the fear of death > fear of suffering (with high chance of death)
Separately: dying for a "good cause" is a highly subjective opinion. I wouldn't do it, except maybe out of pure love for a family member, in that 1/1000000000 hypothetical of taking a bullet. Doesn't really happen in practice that you get to trade your life for another, they'll just be shot already by the time you react
Yeah just keep laying off staff until they are, amirite?
Statements like this are always saved for when a corp justifies layoffs. The reality is that the American tax code is made to encourage corps to spend all the money you make (in which case corps don't pay tax at all). VCs and big tech leverage their positions to massively increase power whether the individual company has savings or not
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