• dragynbob@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    I don’t have a ton of knowledge in this area, but this seems like it should run afoul of antitrust regulations?

    • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
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      4 months ago

      That was my first thought too. Yet another reason to vote for Dems this November - only one party actually gives a shit about enforcing antitrust regulations!

      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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        4 months ago

        are you absolutely positive the democrats give a shit about antitrust regulations? Biden did actively strike break.

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      4 months ago

      Who should be regulated, Google or Reddit? Reddit updated there robots.txt to disallow everything. As it’s their site, I guess it’s also their right to determine that. They then made a deal with Google, which I guess is also not abusing a dominant position by Google, as Reddit could have made a deal with anyone.

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      4 months ago

      Given lawmakers that understand how the internet works, I think it would be. To me this isn’t any different than a handful of years back when ISPs were throttling websites to give an advantage to the certain ones that paid them to work faster.