Yeah, how dare a sitting member of the Senate Finance Committee target an American company worth over a billion dollars price-gouging the most important TLD on the Internet and arguably violating antitrust laws. Doesn’t she know that politicians are each only allowed one issue to care about? And that now she’s wasted hers?
It’s a well-known best practice to deal with monopolies only after they’ve gotten utterly, catastrophically out-of-hand and have a fuckload of leverage, yes.
Yeah, how dare a sitting member of the Senate Finance Committee target an American company worth over a billion dollars price-gouging the most important TLD on the Internet and arguably violating antitrust laws. Doesn’t she know that politicians are each only allowed one issue to care about? And that now she’s wasted hers?
Also, is the idea that there are some monopolistic practices that we can let slide because they aren’t important enough?
It’s a well-known best practice to deal with monopolies only after they’ve gotten utterly, catastrophically out-of-hand and have a fuckload of leverage, yes.