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Re:Elizabeth Warren’s simple case for breaking up big tech by joshuaellinger on Sunday July 21, 2019 @08:52AM (#20491119)
Microsoft overreached by giving away IE to killing Mozilla. That's what really caused the consent decree to get issued. I find it hard to believe that you would have gotten Amazon/Google/Facebook if Microsoft had a stranglehold on the desktop.

I don't agree with your take on Amazon. We can't trust the US government to police the large companies. The large companies are too good at (a) walking right up to the line or (b) buying off the people who make/enforce the laws.

Don't understand the downvotes either.

Re:Elizabeth Warren’s simple case for breaking up big tech by igravious on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:31PM (#20500270)
Yeah, giving away IE was super sketchy given their market dominance. Same goes for Chrome when you think about it.