• Cort@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Ok, how is this not illegal? Buying up all the supply to prevent competitors from buying any, even when you can’t use it yourself. There’s gotta be some anticompetitive regulation that would cover this

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Gonna need a functional government with a functioning regulatory body for that.

      Edit: also, Congress seems to be able to just lasso anyone and pull them into a hearing to make a show of damn near anything. We could really use one of those for this (and many other) boondongles right now.

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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      18 days ago

      And they were even real sneaky about it by buying up from the two largest global suppliers at the same time in secret so that neither knew they were buying up the whole global supply. This probably is technically illegal, but the US doesn’t enforce shit like this.

    • Communist
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      18 days ago

      Because it’s stupid and fixes itself later.