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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by squarefoot on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:20PM (#20921371)
Google just happens to be the biggest among them, so it's understandable they come first, but this is going to happen for every entity that grows to a certain point because it's how our system works: small players crying mommy about big corporations killing competition until they grow to a point they can kill competition themselves, which they will happily do, becoming themselves the bad guys. Then some external entity comes and restores some balance by splitting them etc. Rinse, repeat.

Maximizing profits, which is the goal that moves every company everywhere, from small shops to multinational corporations, leads ultimately to this if no, sloppy, or deliberately inefficient control is performed.

Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by enitihas on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:17PM (#20921982)
Biggest among what companies. Both market cap and net income of google are less than both MSFT and AAPL.
Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by lonelappde on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:49AM (#20925376)
MSFT has had a phenomenal year. Amazing that big bad monopoly MSFT, survived an attempt to break it up, and then collapsed to irrelevancy, attacking Google with AstroTurf political advertising campaigns, yet is now higher market cap then AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, currently the only one worth (barely) over $1T.