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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  1. How?

  2. Pick a different example then. In my experience movie theaters don't let you bring food in from outside. McDonald's still won't sell a Burger King burger regardless of whether you could bring one in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's less restrictive than what I said. McDonald's won't let you bring tacos in at all, doesn't just make you wait at the door for 2 minutes, etc.

Edit: and to anyone quibbling with my McDonald's example saying you can in fact bring tacos in, that was just an illustration. I can find plenty of examples of one establishment not letting people bring food in from somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Is it more anti competitive than McDonald's only selling McDonald's burgers or preventing you from bringing Taco Bell tacos in from outside?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just use Freetube either way. I can't stand autoplaying videos or suggestions, popups, etc.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The current US Federal Trade Commission is quite agressive compared to other FTCs historically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, if everyone in the world had your lifestyle the world would be much more wealthy and could make a lot of positive changes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think the answer is yes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Amazon is very much not a monopoly. There are thousands of online retailers. There are also a lot of delivery services, no idea if there are thousands, but there's a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You certainly should do your best to not shoot through human shields, agreed. But can it still sometimes be better to shoot through human shields if that's what it takes to get very dangerous people vs letting them escape and threaten again later? I don't know, it's a hard question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For conflicts like this leadership that is planning attacks or otherwise leading forces that are doing attacking, simply existing anywhere outside a prison cell is threatening. Hamas leadership knows that, they're the ones putting hostpitals at risk by being there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Except Hamas is the government in Gaza and can setup pretty much whatever situation it wants to there, while it is hated in Israel outside of Gaza and would be prevented from taking an Israeli hospital and constructing elaborate tunnels under it. That's kind of like saying "If Russia wants Ukraine so bad, why doesn't it just take Kyiv?" Because it can't. There's a bunch of obstacles stopping it, otherwise it obviously would.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of that affects people's ability to disseminate information anywhere close to the constraints put on people by traditional publishing. Again, how many people have ever posted to social media vs how many people have ever published a book?

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