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> If apple literally hadn't won their own case 2 years ago you'd be right.

how does some previous judge decision matter for weather you _should_ crack down on a company?

it doesn't, right

the government can change laws, and judges can overrule decisions and as the US supreme court has shown even if there isn't "any new evidence in favor of the new decision but even evidence in favor of the old decision" decisions can be overruled and be done 100% in opposition to precedence of the same court.



> how does some previous judge decision matter for weather you _should_ crack down on a company?

Looking at previous decisions and leveraging them basically is the job of a lawyer.

IMHO this decision won't stand long. You cannot apply different decisions to similar cases.


yes but that doesn't mean that the us should not crack down on marked power abuse

being atm. in a position where suing you doesn't work well doesn't mean you are not causing harm nor doesn't mean you are not acting outside of the law. It only means that there is currently no effective way to use the law against you. But that can always change. And the US cracking down on them isn't limited to judge orders from cases of 3rd party companies against them. More specifically it's not even part of the state cracking down as that only refers to legislative and executive organs of the state judicial organs are supposed to be neutral.




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