• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m always glad to see the government go after a consolidated vertical monopoly like these assholes. It is part of the government’s damn job, afterall.

    But it kind of feels like it’s a play for optics when there are much larger issues.

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      7 months ago

      Its weird how a large group of people such as the federal government can work on more than one thing at a time.

      Just because you dont know all the other things happening doesnt mean theyre not.

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        Ticketmaster is an easy target. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft ,Google should have been cut to pieces years ago, yet here we are.

        These companies have more revenue than some countries, this is mental and shouldn’t happen.

        So yeah, I get the cynicism.

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          For such an easy target, Ticketmaster has operated with impunity for decades at this point. I agree it probably isn’t the most pressing problem right now, but I am glad something is finally being done.

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        Dear US government, please stop climate change. I don’t even go to concerts. I would feel bad about the gas it takes to get there

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        And it’s weird how these things almost always get killed by someone like Joe Manchin or the SCOTUS in spite of all the hard work of those good people. Try to pay more attention to what is actually going on.

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        The current session doesn’t even have a good record of doing one thing at once and political capital is not infinite. It’s a legitimate concern to think we should be doing more important things.

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      7 months ago

      you are like those karens at council meetings who complain “why we spend money on this instead of this??” and nothing gets done as result

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      They are supposed to stop it looooong before it gets to this stage. Have one or more companies formed powerful trusts that give them significant power over a market? Break them apart and bust them open.

      Instead, we twiddle our thumbs while bootlicking white knites tell you it’s not a monopoly because there are TWO trusts cornering entire markets.

      It’s madness.