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47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
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Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#12Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys.
"47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#13Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys. "47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
Or consider Facebook has a long history of anticompetitive behavior and the Government attorneys are doing their job by investigating. If anything it creates employment for Facebook attorneys not the other way around.
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#14Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys. "47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
Or consider Facebook has a long history of anticompetitive behavior and the Government attorneys are doing their job by investigating. If anything it creates employment for Facebook attorneys not the other way around.
Of course; so an attorney can support the investigation regardless of which side they work for, which allows them to combine their support with their moral stance and pretend that they are one and the same.
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#15Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys. "47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
Attorney General is a government position. These are government employees. They aren't going to make a personal profit off of this, unless you're saying that all 47 are corrupt in some way.
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon is a trust, not yet a monopoly. There is an inherent conflict of interest, and lack of recourse (forced arbitration), between Amazon marketplace sellers and Amazon the e-commerce store. Likewise between AWS customers and Amazon the e-commerce store and advertising network. By any reasonable consumer standards, AWS should be split off into a separate company. The pervasive surveillance and continual scandals su…
Have we seen companies get split off in similar circumstances in the past?
The textbook case studies would be the break up of Bell Telephone Company [1] or Standard Oil [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jersey...
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#17Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys. "47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
I would find that extremely concerning. Also, New York City is already spending a fortune on just that. The main lines that feed into New York can't really be shut down for maintnence without massive water outages.
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#18Consider, though, that antitrust investigations generate employment for attorneys. "47 plumbing company bosses now support complete inspection of all NY city pipes ..."
Attorney General is a government position. These are government employees. They aren't going to make a personal profit off of this, unless you're saying that all 47 are corrupt in some way.
Also, there's only I think around 56 state-level attorneys general (if you include territories and DC) so this is roughly 80% of state-level AGs, and 90% of state AGs.
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or consider Facebook has a long history of anticompetitive behavior and the Government attorneys are doing their job by investigating. If anything it creates employment for Facebook attorneys not the other way around.
Of course; so an attorney can support the investigation regardless of which side they work for, which allows them to combine their support with their moral stance and pretend that they are one and the same.
The Attorney's General Offices are government institutions their budgets and their salaries are set by the legislatures. They don't get bigger budgets and employ more attorneys because they are investigating Facebook. Its the same as any DA/state attorney office, they don't get more money or hire more attorney's because they file more criminal charges.
If anything the government attorneys are hurting themselves professionally because they will be blackballed from ever working at Facebook and likely many other big tech companies.
Was the 1990's MS antitrust investigation and case all smoke and mirrors by attorneys for some private gain also?
Re: 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course; so an attorney can support the investigation regardless of which side they work for, which allows them to combine their support with their moral stance and pretend that they are one and the same.
The Attorney's General Offices are government institutions their budgets and their salaries are set by the legislatures. They don't get bigger budgets and employ more attorneys because they are investigating Facebook. Its the same as any DA/state attorney office, they don't get more money or hire more attorney's because they file more criminal charges. If anything the government attorneys are hurting themselves profe…
> They don't get bigger budgets and employ more attorneys because they are investigating Facebook.
That seems a bit naive though; of course investigating Facebook is a demonstration of the wielding of power. If they can investigate and punish Facebook, their power and importance grows.
> If anything the government attorneys are hurting themselves professionally ...
Not if we consider their profession to be more of whatever they are doing now; if they do a good job in that, they advance. The more junior people involved in the investigation do good jobs, and advance to better, more senior positions and so on.