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Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)

submitted 9 months ago by Oiconomia@feddit.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 269 points 9 months ago

Save us, EU. You're our only hope. Sincerely, USA

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 135 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This keeps happening—can you lot make some laws for a change?

Edit: oh wait not like that

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 71 points 9 months ago

It's cool I fixed it now.

America, moments after outlawing IVF

Just as an aside, I'm an American that emigrated to Canada. My province (BC) is currently passing a law to make one attempt at IVF free for everyone (starting midyear in 2025)... laws actually can be used for good.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 41 points 9 months ago

In America, laws can also be used for good. Just not your good.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Yeah this is cool and all but how can it benefit the wealthiest people in the country more? ✊💦✊💦

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm very happy to hear that at least some in the US understand what is being done to them

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago

Lots of us know, but we mostly live in urban centers where life is better (and often a bit less car centric, for example). Our voting and election finance laws erase lots of our voices.

Just be lucky that when motivated, we still vastly outvote the right wing nuts.

[-] dan@upvote.au 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

California tries its best... There's a bunch of pro-consumer laws that other states don't have. There's the CCPA which is similar to GDPR (including the right to know and the right to be forgotten). You must be able to cancel a service easily online if you can sign up online. Store gift cards aren't allowed to have expiration dates. Gift cards with less than $10 on them must be redeemable for cash. Stricter laws against false advertising. And a bunch of other useful laws.

Not as good as the Australian Consumer Law, but better than pretty much every other US state.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Ohio does not permit restock fees. The only catch is that it's Ohio.

[-] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 37 points 9 months ago

Cries in britland

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 17 points 9 months ago

You are welcome to rejoin

[-] HerrLewakaas@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago

Actually probably not. Not without major concessions. The pound will have to go which they will never accept unless they have absolutely no other choice

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The concessions are the same as for any other EU member, which is fair

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Why does the pound have to go?

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because countries that join nowadays have to adopt the Euro. Denmark, for example, joined when that was still allowed, so they still have their DK.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago

Apparently it's dependent on the signing of a certain agreement before a certain date, which the UK did sign, so it's actually debated on whether or not Brexit made that signature null or not.

[-] dan@upvote.au 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah I'm confused about this statement... There's several EU countries that don't use the Euro, like Poland and Czechia.

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 8 points 9 months ago

Some joined when the rules stated that you could choose. Some others are just waiting to meet conditions that will allow them to enter the Eurozone (like Croatia did last year)

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That would be such a mistake and only serve to cause more division, because as you say, the UK would never accept it. Neither would multiple countries already in the EU that also use their own currency.

The EU, generally, are pragmatic. They'd much rather get other concessions than wasting political capital on trying to enforce the Euro on the UK.

E: downvote all you like, but that's realpolitik. The EU isn't going to pass up the second largest economy in the continent over something so trivial that they don't even pressure much smaller countries into it. Pure fantasy from people who don't have a clue.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago

The UK adopts various EU rules, a lot of stuff even sold in Northern Ireland has to abide by EU rules (so just say that Apple did make separate lightning and USB C phones, they'd have to use separate operations to sell specific ones in parts of the UK and not others, it probably would have been easier for them to just sell the European models)