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[–] benwubbleyou 86 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How is this not anti competitive behaviour?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

because the us govt doesn't give a shit about monopolies.

EU might get up in their shit though.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sure hope so.

This is way worse than what Microsoft did back in the day with Internet Explorer. They were forced to build a browser selection popup into their operating system because of that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And poured every browser and their sister into it just to make the whole selection process shitty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ARE YOU SUPER DUPER FUCKITY SURE YOU DON'T WANT USE SUPER AWESOMESAUCE EDGE??!

[–] fugepe 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada doesnt either. We are run by oligopolies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So blatantly too

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It is. Anyone who cares is powerless to change it. Anyone with the power to change it doesn't care. That goes for a lot of things.