• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    but they do have enough market power to be considered a monopoly

    Bullshit. Being the most popular platform does not automatically make a monopoly, this is armchair lawyer nonsense.

    • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 hours ago

      It’s true that I am not a lawyer, so feel free to not take what I say as what the law says. I think that the law certainly should consider Steam to be a monopoly with its level of market power, even if it doesn’t currently.

      From what I have heard from actual lawyers, monopolies are not currently illegal under US law anyways. They’re only illegal when combined with anticompetitive practices. That’s my best understanding as a non-lawyer, anyways.