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raw_anon_1111yesterday at 10:10 AM1 replyview on HN

How is that “evidence” of anything? The “evidence” that they were charging less for subscriptions than it cost to run the streaming service is that they were borrowing billions of dollars to both license content and create new content over the course of years.

Netflix borrowed $16 billion over a decades

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/business/netflix-earnings...

Because subscriptions didn’t make enough money to fund its business. Were they being “anti competitive”?


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tovejyesterday at 1:41 PM

Yes. They were. The US just hasn't enforced antitrust laws in decades.

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