Privacy Guides @lemmy.one Haui @discuss.tchncs.de 11 mo. ago

Are there „lawfirms“ that specialize on antitrust?

I know I could google it but I prefer to discuss it here:

There are many interesting discussions about antitrust, companies being jerks and corporats making the world worse.

I think it would be cool to have a couple „rogue“ lawyers band together and start making class action law suits against corporations and states for using/enabling anti consumer/anti competitive practices.

I have never been asked to participate in such lawsuits so I assume its not being optimally presented online so far.

Feel free to correct my impression here.

TL;DR: I think we need more ways to fight against anti consumer/privacy stuff in courts all over the world.

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Fighting for data privacy doesn’t pay the bills.
- Louis Rossmann would like a word (allthough its r2r in his case and barely touching privacy but it has been said about r2r as well)
  
  Louis himself stated multiple times that he is fighting r2r beacuse it affects his livelihood and that he's a piece of shit. While that is an important fight nonetheless, that's not privacy directly.
Anti trust is probably the wrong word. This indicates actions to breakup monopolies.

You'd want an attorney practicing in consumer privacy or data privacy. I believe they already exist.

My experience is that the government typically handles these cases, but I'm very likely wrong.
- Absolutely possible that they often handle it. It was just the idea that we kind of need something like r/wallstreetbets but with lawyers&for commercial & legislative justice or something. I‘m thinking a little broader than privacy. More like if a sub decides that a topic has 10s of thousands of followers, it is brought before one or more courts with a kickstarter campaign and all. This could be the future of online governing. As in fighting for freedom -> organizing political campaigns -> turning the tide on fascists and autocrats politically and commercially and taking back control of the political landscape.
  
  I like the idea. I'm not sure of the risk, because if you lose, then I think you have to pay the other parties legal fees.
  
  If you started a Kickstarter and got good lawyers on board, I'd be willing to contribute. I would need to see the lawyers are well qualified though and preferably only paid if they win.
I had a funny+weird idea where lawyers and lawyer students teach each other in order to file mass class action lawsuits

the benefit to this is that ordinary people could basically choose which ones to hop on/bandwagon

the potential con would be that this might draw a big target on whoever decides to do this
- But it’s creative. I like it.

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