• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    I rather doubt that buyer boycotts are actually illegal (with the exception of the anti Israel boycotts).

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        What monopoly? There are many platforms for ad placement. Boycotting one platform doesn’t make the rest of the market a monopoly.

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            By your logic, any group that organizes a boycott of any company is guilty of creating a monopoly. That is not how monopolies work, and it is also not illegal. It is a normal function of a free market.

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        A monopoly exists when there is only one seller of a product. A monopsony exists when there is only one buyer of a product.

        I’m really not sure that the Sherman Antitrust Act regulates artificial monopsonies the same way it does with monopolies

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