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That's not quite it.

The US doesn't, in general, give any extra rights or protections to its people without a bit of force, and then one is lucky.

Hence, no real consumer protection (which would include this). No signing of a thing giving rights for children, and so on. The rights folks legally have were grand enough 200 years ago, but have become substandard over time with little upgrading.

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It wasn't that long ago when Microsoft got sued (in the US) for not allowing people to uninstall and replace Internet Explorer.

Something has changed since then that has made US anti-trust much "lazier".

As I recall, there was an election during the trial, where Bill Clinton was replaced by George Bush, whose administration was not as keen to prosecute monopolists.

I had a call yesterday night from a West Virginian friend, and surprisingly the US just extanded worker protection? Or something, at least that was the first time he was exited by US politics since I met him.

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