Over the past year, the old idea of enforcing market competition has gained renewed life in American politics. The basic idea is that the structure of the modern market economy has failed: There are too few companies, most of them are too big, and they’re stifling competition. Its supporters argue that the government should do something about it, reviving what in the United States we call antitrust laws and what in Europe is called competition policy.

Stronger antitrust enforcement—it’s enough of a thing, now, that Vox is explaining it.

The loudest supporters of this idea, so far, have been from the left. But this week, a newer and more secretive voice endorsed a stronger antitrust policy.

Steve Bannon, the chief strategist to President Donald Trump, believes Facebook and Google should be regulated as public utilities, according to an anonymously sourced report in The Intercept. This means they would get treated less like a book publisher and more like a telephone company. The government would shorten their leash, treating them as privately owned firms that provide an important public service.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3689933&forum_id=2#33895640)

Technically neither is Amazon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3689933&forum_id=2#33895660)

You still have wal mart, target, costco, etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3689933&forum_id=2#33895809)

jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3689933&forum_id=2#33895653)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3689933&forum_id=2#33895662)

Bring in da anti-trust bat to smash these fuckers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3689933&forum_id=2#33895680)