• Th4tGuyII
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    11 months ago

    Do you know what you do when someone doesn’t hold up their end of a bargain? You don’t uphold your’s…

    If the FTC forces them to unmerge, it’d make others think twice about lying to the FTC, and give the agency much stronger fangs to bite back with in the future.

    • @Winter8593
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      4611 months ago

      God I wish. How likely do we think that’s gonna happen though?

      • Aniki 🌱🌿
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        11 months ago

        I’ll legit eat a shoe if anything actually happens. Those jobs are gone and those people were just tossed aside like a used candy wrapper.

        • @ohlaph
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          1211 months ago

          I wish a company wouldn’t be allowed to do any layoffs or mass firings for a period of three years post merge and require 1 year severance after that, to all employees at that company, not just those affected by the merge.

        • @Alexstarfire
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          311 months ago

          Fine, but I’m giving you crocs to eat. Used ones. Kill two birds with one stone.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        Basically not unless /another/ anti-trust lawsuit is brought against them, and also somehow Teddy Roosevelt time warps into exactly Biden’s location, explodes him Dr. Manhattan style inside out, immediately asks for a fitting suit, signature glasses, and this somehow stuns everyone into just letting him be President for the rest of Biden’s term.

      • @[email protected]
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        711 months ago

        Pretty sure they will only rack up a penalty for it. That said, they could make it sting though, that would also increase FTC’s power.

        • @Goodie
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          911 months ago

          Penalty? Don’t you mean just another cost of doing business?

          • @ohlaph
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            111 months ago

            Force a fine and three years severance to the affected employees.

            • @Goodie
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              211 months ago

              Make the fine the last 10 years of activision/blizzard gross profits.

              Make the fuckers bleed.

    • @CaptainSpaceman
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      3911 months ago

      As usual, big corps get finger wagged while avg citizens get life in jail for pot.

    • @echo64
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      2011 months ago

      From what I understand, it doesn’t work that way. Which is why they are appealing to the 9th circuit court. They’ve been doing this with little success for half a year or so and it’s unlikely they’ll succeed this time either.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      Can the FTC force an unmerge? I hope they aren’t toothless like a lot of the other captured regulatory agencies.

      • @[email protected]
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        1511 months ago

        The FTC can’t afaik but the justice department can and has forced companies to split up.