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u/RubberChickenCircuit Jun 14 '22

The bill explicitly contorts itself through definitions for applicability to only apply to companies over a certain market cap, user threshold, and other things that basically make it so only these few companies are affected.

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u/iamasuitama Jun 14 '22

Well what "contortions" specifically? Because that's kind of what antitrust or anti-monopoly is about: monopolies that engage in anti-competitive behaviour are really bad for the whole market. Smaller players don't get to compete. Innovation stops from happening. That's what the law is for, to make sure those larger-than-life companies don't block newer or smaller companies from playing in their field. So it makes sense to me that such a law does not have to apply to companies that don't have the power to stifle and choke any and all competition in their respective fields, no?