alt Hacker NewsI'm aware that the US is changing, but in the past, we had an idea that you don't go to jail unless there was a specific crime that you could be charged with.
This "crime" would be written down somewhere in what we called a "law", that would state penalties, with "maximum" sentences.
And, to forestall your comments, one of our other traditions was that you applied these rules even to lying sons of bitches (which Altman is).
Sorry to be old fashioned here.
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You should look up the monopsony provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, as well as the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 which prohibits predatory price discrimination schemes. Scam Alt-Man should be paying the same price for RAM as us plebes, if the DOJ wasn’t derelict in its duty to enforce antitrust law.
It’s wild how Bork’s fraudulent legal theories have been converted to into dogma within a generation.
I'm pretty sure this clearly runs afoul of anticompetitive laws, no? Altman is intentionally sabotaging the global electronics supply chain using their existing market dominance to prevent competitors from being able to operate.
And, tangentially, I really don't know what world you lived in. The US has arrested civil rights leaders and overthrown countries and went through an entire era of McCarthyism to get here: where the US president is having investigations into his political enemies for what amounts to "disloyalty". It's basically a national given that cops plant evidence on black folk regularly.
Since when has America been this bastion of lawfulness?