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  • Mandatory licensing of video content to anyone who can pay for it (similar to what the music industry does) is the only thing that the might disrupt the streaming industry, like a sort of Paramount Decrees for the streaming age, since monopolies on originals is what keeps people locked in

  • What’s the difference? Nationality? Skin color?

  • Who exactly are they supposed to be losing to?

  • Thanks for the clarification, sadly

  • If anybody is still under the impression that someone somewhere in the chain of command might refuse illegal orders, this tells you everything you need to know

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/nov/28/amazon-ai-climate-change
  • That’s why it’s good they’re owned by an independent foundation and not shareholders looking to win merger approval to expand a media empire

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’

    www.theverge.com /entertainment/827650/indie-developers-gen-ai-nexon-arc-raiders
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    AI Socrates

    existentialcomics.com /comic/629
  • Anarchism @lemmy.ml

    The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine

    theintercept.com /2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away
  • Simón

  • No, but it can give you benefits that aren’t required by federal law, which was Gullible’s point.

  • Adversarial interoperability FTW

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net

    Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/nov/19/shipping-carbon-emissions-neoliner-origin-cargo-age-of-sail
  • Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world

    White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist
  • the barrier to entry for a Steam competitor is nearly non-existent

    My brother in christ have you heard of network effects?

  • vegan @lemmy.world

    The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/human-exceptionalism-essay
  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net

    ‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world

    A refugee’s deportation rattles a deeply conservative town: ‘What Trump has done is not Christlike’

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/nov/12/refugee-deportation-idaho-trump
  • A calculator gives the same, right answer every time, though

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    ‘It shows such a laziness’: why I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2025/nov/10/chatgpt-dating-ick
  • Why should we care about this particular horse/kart race?

  • Anarchism and Social Ecology @slrpnk.net

    Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/nov/04/spain-grants-citizenship-descendants-international-brigades-civil-war
  • That’s just begging the question, isn’t it, requiring a conviction as a monopolist as the only acceptable form of evidence of monopolization? If someone said the same thing about Google when Epic sued them in 2020, would you have waited the 3 years it took to get a trial verdict before making up your mind?

    Also, many arbitration settlements include NDAs as a condition of getting a payout, so it’s disingenuous to say they could provide evidence that might require their clients to forfeit their settlements or risk them getting disbarred.

    I agree the venue is unfortunate, but why are you insisting on giving the giant for-profit corporation the benefit of the doubt rather than the consumers who are trying to hold them accountable?

  • You’ve only highlighted what’s so fucked up about binding arbitration: it’s secretive. It forces plaintiffs to retain individual counsel, with arbitration clauses in contracts typically blocking class actions in public court and requiring you to waive your right to a trial by a jury of your peers. This means there is no precedent that is set or that binds future decisions by the arbitrator, there is no public record that gets reported on and embarrasses companies, and there are no large payouts to be recovered when a million people get nickel-and-dimed for a few bucks each and can sue as a class.

  • The question isn’t so much whether a company is a monopoly, or part of a duopoly, or oligopoly, but whether their market power lets them coerce their rivals, suppliers, customers, etc. It’s a common misconception that a company needs 100% of a market before they can exert monopoly power (as a seller), and the threshold is even lower for monopsony power (as a buyer), which is common in labor markets with powerful employers, for example.

    Legal thresholds for application of anti-monopoly laws have historically been quite low as well. For example, in Brown Shoe Co. v. United States in 1962, the US Supreme Court approved blocking a merger between Brown, a company that manufactured less than 6% of shoes in the US, and Kinney, a company that sold only 2% of shoes! And that actually seems like the right approach, since the Clayton Act, for example, doesn’t only prohibit acquiring 100% of a market (which would render it worthless), but blocks any acquisition when “the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition.”

  • Um, there is more than one type of anticompetitive practice? Amazon uses predatory pricing to drive companies out of business, Microsoft uses tying to sell Teams, Google uses self-preferencing for their own services in search results, Facebook acquired Instagram rather than compete with them, etc.

    One of Valve’s favorite anticompetitive cudgels is requiring “most favored nation” clauses in their contracts, prohibiting devs from selling for less on other storefronts (which Amazon also has used).

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world

    A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/nov/02/trump-democrats-playbook
  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net

    How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe
  • THE POLICE PROBLEM @lemmy.world

    Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/oct/23/venezuela-tren-de-aragua-gang-police
  • Texas @lemmy.world

    17 statewide propositions will appear on the November ballot. Here’s what Texas voters need to know. - The Texas Tribune

    www.texastribune.org /2025/09/22/texas-statewide-propositions-november-ballot-election/
  • Autism @lemmy.world

    ‘It’s quite useless to us’: what autistic people actually want from the Trump administration

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/oct/19/autistic-people-trump-administration-research
  • World News @lemmy.world

    US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/oct/16/admiral-alvin-holsey-caribbean-venezuela