• @Phegan
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      103 months ago

      Nobody was conspiring, they just stopped advertising on a sinking ship.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Except I doubt the conspired. I find it far more likely that they all saw what Muskrat was doing and didn’t want to do business with him, because he’s an ass.

      Also he told them to go fuck themselves, so yea.

    • @mkwt
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      03 months ago

      I rather doubt that buyer boycotts are actually illegal (with the exception of the anti Israel boycotts).

        • NaibofTabr
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          43 months ago

          What monopoly? There are many platforms for ad placement. Boycotting one platform doesn’t make the rest of the market a monopoly.

            • NaibofTabr
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              23 months ago

              By your logic, any group that organizes a boycott of any company is guilty of creating a monopoly. That is not how monopolies work, and it is also not illegal. It is a normal function of a free market.

        • @mkwt
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          33 months ago

          A monopoly exists when there is only one seller of a product. A monopsony exists when there is only one buyer of a product.

          I’m really not sure that the Sherman Antitrust Act regulates artificial monopsonies the same way it does with monopolies