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It is. They make far more money than they lose in penalties when officials bother enforcing on any technical violations. It's such a huge pain in the ass to try enforcing these little violations and there's so much corruption and bureaucracy preventing effective enforcement of the big ones that any action against these companies at all is a noteworthy accomplishment for a regulatory agency.

Lina Khan is punching way above her weight and using the FTC to do the job it's ostensibly designed for. She's aggressively poking some very ornery and obnoxious bears, hopefully some precedents will be set and corruption repaired. Most regulators are incentivized to play within the whole wink-wink-nod-nod government revolving door system of crony capitalism, but Khan doesn't seem to be playing that game, which is nice.



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