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Amazon, Meta, Google are most certainly cut from the same cloth, only slightly smaller. For Wal-Mart I can't think of anything strictly anit-competitive, but its practice of paying sub-subsistance wages and counting on government relief programs to make up the difference is so disgusting I don't know how to describe. Time-Warner, Comcast I'm not too familiar with, but as I understand they are under regulations that prohibit them from dropping your connection when e.g. they find you visiting ycombinatior.com, a site where their business is frequently ridiculed, which is certainly a step in the right direction and the model that should be applied broadly and forcefully to all of the above.



> For Wal-Mart I can't think of anything strictly anit-competitive...

Wal-Mart might be the world's foremost practitioner of predatory pricing, not to mention the control they exert over their suppliers.


> but as I understand they are under regulations that prohibit them from dropping your connection when e.g. they find you visiting ycombinatior.com

Was that a problem before?





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