Marques Brownlee explains the Apple Antitrust lawsuit

He lays out some of it ok, but he only lightly dances around the essential issue of "social stigma" and impact on certain "similar demographics" as the basis for bringing an anti trust suit.

Assuming he's not lawyer he doesn't get it either or he's ignoring pointing those things out on purpose.

I thought it was decent for a layman

I forgot you were a lawyer, too

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No statute is that specific, sparky.

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Now we're getting to it. Are you denying social stigma against demographics is a basis for the DOJ's suit?

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Are you denying social stigma against demographics is a basis for the DOJ's suit?

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No.

However, the failure in your "argument" is ignoring that these are economic issues and fall directly under our anti-trust law.

Your entire "argument" is based off ignorance of the level of a 1st grader.

Time to dust off the Rule of Reason.

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However, the failure in your "argument" is ignoring that these are economic issues and fall directly under our anti-trust law.

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So, in other words, "actual lawyer", if the Biden administration says a company's successful business practices socially stigmatize blacks, for example, then it can use that as a basis for anti-trust action?

Riddle me that big tree hugger...

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As a non-lawyer and all around moron that doesn't understand any of this, can you explain to me what a social stigma against demographics means and how it effects Apple?

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Look, it's high-level stuff, especially for a layman. Even "actual lawyers" obviously struggle with it.

The key to remember is it's the Biden DOJ, not me, that says in its lawsuit it's relying on social stigma against, say, blacks, for example, to sue Apple.

You have to understand that just because the DOJ, much less the Biden administration, says it is so doesn't mean they are right or will win the suit on that basis. The DOJ files suits and also files them on invalid grounds and loses.

It's a pure bullshite argument; the anti-trust laws were never enacted to enforce social engineering. Hopefully, the lower courts, and if not, the Supreme Court will eventually make short shrift of it.

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if the Biden administration says a company's successful business practices socially stigmatize blacks, for example, then it can use that as a basis for anti-trust action?

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It could, theoretically, depending on the underlying economic claims.

here is a paper discussing it


They would likely use other avenues, though, like the FTC or anti-discrimination statutes.

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except you made this up.

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I made up teenagers and other "similar demographics"? Do tell me what the Biden administration means by other similar demographics if it's not minorities.

Let me make this simpler for those of you that are confused. The gist of this suit is about messaging over a cellphone. In other words, messaging/texting.

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on texting; it simply has its own version called instant messaging. In a highly competitive market with Android/Google and other cell phone makers, people are free to pick and choose as they please. Where's the monopoly? Apple doesn't own the text messaging market. It simply owns its own version of it.

The DOJ knows this. Since there's no true monopoly, what's the anti-trust problem here? There isn't one. You don't sue a company just because it is successful or popular in something. The Biden DOJ is left with having to resort to social stigma impacting "certain demographics" by using one version over the other as an excuse to bring down Apple's "walled garden".

Boo Hoo, poor little minority/teenager feels looked down upon for having green bubbles, and buys Apple instead, so we gonna hit Apple where it hurts.

I mean, WTF?