Much in the same way that the company selling tickets and taking a percentage of all ticket resales shouldn't also own the venues which can then force artists to use a specific ticketing provider, thus creating a monopoly.

We have antitrust laws in the US but they do us absolutely no good when the government refuses to even consider enforcing them, which seems to be the case in the past few decades.

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mike_bob 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Biden passed some of the toughest anti-trust laws in the past 20 years, but Trump repealed them quite literally in the first month he returned to office, calling anti-trust legislation as "bad for business".

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starik36 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The only entity that "passes" laws in this country is Congress.

You mean via executive order? That's not exactly passing a law.

	▲	gmueckl 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Executive orders can effectively kneecap any efforts to put laws into effect, as we can see almost daily since 20. January 2025.
	▲	wwweston an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Your language more accurately reflects how the US government is supposed to operate, and that's important, we'd all be better off if people remembered that the government has a number of branches with different responsibilities, actually kept track of who controls each, and otherwise understood the system. It's also more or less true that the Biden administration took more responsibility and initiative in antitrust enforcement: https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2... https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/02/biden-ftc-antitrust-... https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-biden-administration...