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0 pointskjs35y ago0 comments

Which particular aspect of regulation is crushing American tech companies?

- Honesty in financial disclosure?

- Fairness in employment policies?

- Responsibility in data governance and handling?

Something else?

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It's not formal law, but informal warnings straight from congress and who knows what else privately. Ex: The current investigation into big tech poo-pooing FB's acquisitions of WhatsApp & Instagram, who say that under current law that there isn't anything illegal going on, but maybe we, congress, should make that kind of stuff illegal too.

Everyone has learned from microsoft's antitrust trial you want some semblance of a competitor and not look too self serving.

kjs3OP5y ago

So...nothing that low overhead ethical business practices would make a company uncompetitive.

novok5y ago

Yes what you cite has little to do with mergers and acquisitions (m&a) that the parent post was talking about. While the examples i gave were acquisitions that got congressional attention

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0 pointskjs35y ago0 comments

Which particular aspect of regulation is crushing American tech companies?

- Honesty in financial disclosure?

- Fairness in employment policies?

- Responsibility in data governance and handling?

Something else?

0 comments

novok5y ago

Everyone has learned from microsoft's antitrust trial you want some semblance of a competitor and not look too self serving.

kjs3OP5y ago

So...nothing that low overhead ethical business practices would make a company uncompetitive.

novok5y ago

Yes what you cite has little to do with mergers and acquisitions (m&a) that the parent post was talking about. While the examples i gave were acquisitions that got congressional attention

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse