• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Maybe if all their shadiness hadn’t been allowed in the first place they wouldn’t have been able to become a monopoly.

    But please, I beg of you, do Adobe next.

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          Any brands protected by American law must be independently-owned, with full transfer of all branding, patents, trade secrets, intellectual assets and physical assets.

          So, for example, for even a single bottle of Perrier to be sold in America, it needs to have been made by a company registered with the brand name of Perrier, with exclusive use of that name within the country, independently owned and under zero control by Nestle, being manufactured using the exact same process with the exact same ingredients, and having control of the exact same patents and American-side infrastructure.

          America is such a large marketplace that it would be impossible to split a company like this. Patents alone would prevent this, forcing Nestle to divest themselves of each individual subsidiary.

        • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 month ago

          Instead of invading Africa to control people and steal resources, the usa could kick Nestle out of their plantations.

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      1 month ago

      I remember the days of google being a cool startup that had just made news releasing gmail with a whopping 1GB of storage making everyone go crazy for the invites. It’s a strange feeling.

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        Yeah, I thought Google was so cool around 2004. Now I can’t wait for them to become irrelevant. I need to stop using “googling” as a verb…