Here is a point I don't really see many people bring up. What if some of the buisnesses aren't corrupt. What if it's the politicans that are corrupt and buisness are just defending themselves.
That they tried to get extortion money from buisnesses, like Microsoft. Which Microsoft refused to be involved with politicians. And a few months later the Government hit them with Monopoly anti-trust lawsuits all because Microsoft offered Internet Explorer for free with their opereating system. They said it'll give Microsoft unfair advantage over the competition by offering a free web browser, and attract more customers, which undermined their competitor at the time Netscape, and which will give them more monopoly control over the market.
But it's hardly a monopoly since Linux, OSX and other OS exist. And it may give Microsoft a boost in the short run, but with market competition other competitors may do the same to out compete Microsoft. An example of them not having complete control would be in 2003 the City Governement of Munich switched from using Windows that they used in 14,000 of their computers to using Linux.
So imagine this situation but applied to game consoles game servers. What if the majority charge for internet servers but one big corporation doesn't and offers it for free. Would they then be hit with anti-trust monopoly lawsuits? Is offering free online a gaming business going out of control for monopoly control?
Microsoft refuse to lobby the governement so they were hit with a lawsuit. And now Microsoft has a building in Washington, lawyers, and they lobby the government. What if it's not big business that are corrupt, what if some are victims and only pay politicians extortion money, so that politicians and legislators won't pass legislation and use laws to screw over their business? Give me money and we won't screw you over.
That they tried to get extortion money from buisnesses, like Microsoft. Which Microsoft refused to be involved with politicians. And a few months later the Government hit them with Monopoly anti-trust lawsuits all because Microsoft offered Internet Explorer for free with their opereating system. They said it'll give Microsoft unfair advantage over the competition by offering a free web browser, and attract more customers, which undermined their competitor at the time Netscape, and which will give them more monopoly control over the market.
But it's hardly a monopoly since Linux, OSX and other OS exist. And it may give Microsoft a boost in the short run, but with market competition other competitors may do the same to out compete Microsoft. An example of them not having complete control would be in 2003 the City Governement of Munich switched from using Windows that they used in 14,000 of their computers to using Linux.
So imagine this situation but applied to game consoles game servers. What if the majority charge for internet servers but one big corporation doesn't and offers it for free. Would they then be hit with anti-trust monopoly lawsuits? Is offering free online a gaming business going out of control for monopoly control?
Microsoft refuse to lobby the governement so they were hit with a lawsuit. And now Microsoft has a building in Washington, lawyers, and they lobby the government. What if it's not big business that are corrupt, what if some are victims and only pay politicians extortion money, so that politicians and legislators won't pass legislation and use laws to screw over their business? Give me money and we won't screw you over.
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