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A comment on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon. Parent comment
That is not true. There are laws against certain behavior by monopolies.
Here's the Sherman Antitrust Act you mentioned, which makes this clear [1].
As such, it's not legal to simply break up a monopoly solely because they're a monopoly. They have to exhibit specified illegal behavior first.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890
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That is not true. There are laws against certain behavior by monopolies.
Here's the Sherman Antitrust Act you mentioned, which makes this clear [1].
As such, it's not legal to simply break up a monopoly solely because they're a monopoly. They have to exhibit specified illegal behavior first.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890