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Making moves so that competitors can't play at all is so far beyond playing dirty. It's anti-competitive and illegal.


They can play, but they are competing with a raised bar which benefits consumers. It's not illegal to make things better.


They aren't competing with a raised bar, they are competing with a bar that can only be passed if you already have a massive presence in an unrelated area. You can not compete with an entrenched existing player when they are giving their things away for "free", subsidized by a massive ad tax. This entrenchment is tailor-made to make competition infeasible.

This is illegal for a reason. It does NOT benefit consumers to make it impossible for anybody to compete with you. This is anti-competitive, not competition.




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