There's no reason to get to the point of collusion.
Break up any company that achieves a dominant market position, and make the geographic threshold much smaller than national.
Antitrust laws exist for a reason, and that reason is independent from impropriety.
And where do you live? Because, no, most places don't have small corner shops that sell much more than smokes and chips.
And even most of those have been replaced by gas stations that are not just down the block.
Yeah, to the tune of 100%. Passive income isn't a thing. It's just someone else's labour value that's been denied to them.
If the police show up, and the labour unions actually stand off against them, the photos alone could spark a significant social movement. One of the things that labour has failed to show for, oh, like 2 generations now is that the movement is willing to actually help people more generally, being mostly content to limit itself to helping its membership.
Engaging publicly in a big way has the potential, at least, to be a huge deal.
I saw some engagement graphs a few weeks ago for a few niche subreddits. Not necessarily niche in the "small" way, but in the "focused interest" way.
Posts and comments per day completely collapsed during the 3rd party app-pocolypse, and never recovered. Community membership didn't even show a blip, but actual discussions fell off a cliff.
The Reddit app is really bad, and the website is worse. The mobile website is somehow the worst of the lot. Doing anything but voting and scrolling is painful. Reddit has successfully ended its usefulness as a community space. Most people there don't aeem to have noticed this sea change, yet.
Or at least, they've found no compelling reason to go elsewhere yet.
I've found that LLMs spit things out that read like bad high school essays. I'm not sure they're succeeding at sounding allistic at all. Just weirdly repetative in the way a structured high school essay is.
It was deemed legal and fair use after the film and music industries sued VCR manufacturers and users.
So yeah, it absolutely was considered piracy by the media production and distribution companies. The courts disagreeing with them doesn't change that.
Makes sense. They only count their money. Though, they also see the rest of us as temporary stores of their money, so they don't want that going to climate related issues, either.
they might be able to FIX MICE!
FTFY
People choose not to choose. They're not interested in engaging with the space or technology any deeper than the default.
Exploiting this fact to the point of defacto monopoly should still be considered wrong.
"I trust these guys to not sell my data because they've only sold me data over there" is a hell of a take.
Someone has their identity tied up in this for some reason