I don't care about the specifics here, but can someone school me: What possible mechanisms are there to prevent cartels? I hear a lot about how to deal with monopolies (which are trivial to identify) but very little about colluding oligopolies.
12 years ago [1] this law was invoked against big tech companies, who entered no-poach agreements to reduce inter-big-tech-co hiring competition, with the side effect of wage suppression.
Anti-competitive collusion is illegal, full-stop. Proving anti-competitive conspiracy without an explicit paper trail is hard. The emails in the article are pretty explicit. Should be interesting!
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...