[HN Gopher] DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster...
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DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord
Author : 1vuio0pswjnm7
Score : 67 points
Date : 2026-04-10 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| reactordev wrote:
| https://archive.is/AaKR7
| baggachipz wrote:
| I've quit my job before when my boss(es) completely blocked me
| from doing my job and did whatever they wanted against all logic
| and reason. But then again, my job wasn't to hold bad actors
| accountable and seek justice for the people.
| estearum wrote:
| Yeah, just imagine how frustrating it'd be if that _was_ your
| job, and you were prevented from doing it _by the bad actors_!
| Could drive a person insane.
| idontwantthis wrote:
| Next time someone says both sides are the same, remind them about
| this.
|
| Democrats brought suit against an obvious monopoly over the most
| unifying and joyful aspect of human existence (Music), and
| Republicans scuttled it so brazenly, you have to assume that
| Trump was bribed.
| lpcvoid wrote:
| Republicans will be happy about this because owning the libs is
| all they care about, and only whiny liberals listen to concerts
| in their worldview.
| stefan_ wrote:
| Trump who? All discourse on YC now pretends he doesn't exist,
| all the tech bros didn't so loudly campaign for him, nor does
| he make any statements. Bad news? Click flag and don't confront
| your actions!
| Animats wrote:
| The current administration is squishy-soft on white collar
| crime.
|
| (The United States Department of Justice is mostly to handle
| white-collar crime. Most DOJ authority comes from the Federal
| power to regulate interstate commerce. Violent crime is
| primarily a state matter. Then came the ICE overexpansion.)
| watwut wrote:
| > squishy-soft on white collar crime.
|
| I disagree. They actively support it in a hard core way.
| Squishy soft imply not wanting it but being weak. They are
| not weak, they love it.
| jatora wrote:
| This argument seems asinine. We've had 12 of the last 24 years
| with democrat presidents or majority..and how many monopolies
| have been broken up in that time span? zero. Democrats do push
| more anti merger antics than Republicans... but come on. there
| aren't even two sides. its money vs not money and anyone still
| buying into the reality show of our political system is
| deluded.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| These cases take upwards of 10 years to resolve. Modern large
| corporations generate tons and tons of paper documentation
| which must be ingested and indexed and analyzed to produce
| the legal case. This takes a lot of resources and time to get
| right. And meanwhile the corporate legal team is making
| motions and arguments in court as you're doing discovery.
| What's asinine is expecting these cases to get resolved
| within a year. Whether the anticipated ruling is in favor of
| the DOJ or not, the case needs to be properly adjudicated
| before the court and I don't see that taking less than a few
| years to be fair. The flip side of monopoly prosecution is
| that a lot of people lose their livelihoods and we
| unfortunately do need to take this into account in our
| justice system, regardless of how much we want to stick it to
| Ticketmaster.
| big_toast wrote:
| "The deal was negotiated without the input of the trial team,
| catching even the lead counsel by surprise." Is trial team a
| technical term? How would you negotiate without the people people
| most familiar with the case.
| bloppe wrote:
| It's pretty easy to negotiate donations to any of Trump's many
| businesses or PACs.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| So, here's the reality of American admnistration: It's all
| mostly delegation. In my state, we have house rules that all
| say "blah blah blah or as provided by the comissioner". But we
| never talk to the commissioner. They never deal with our rules
| directly. They delgate their reponsibility to about 4 layers of
| supervisors down to the technical manager. We deal with the
| technical manager. Whenever we read a rule that references the
| commissioner, that's just the technical manager.
|
| Now, this essentially means if a delusional actor was ever put
| into the seat of commissioner, they could fire everyone and do
| whatever, because theres no delegation requirement.
|
| I'd hazard, thats all that matters: remove the delegation and
| they're still following laws because the system fundamentally
| works by delegation for a large swath of the functioning.
| Remove the delegation and it looks like fiefdoms, lords and
| ladies.
| hammock wrote:
| Insert the astronaut with a gun meme (always has been). Lords
| and ladies also delegated to administrative functionaries,
| with similar results and dynamics. The difference here is
| that the commissioners are, hopefully, democratically
| elected, under the dictates and regulation of the U.S. and
| state constitutions. Which is a key difference.
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