If Match owns all of the dating sites/apps and intentionally makes terrible matches to keep people engaged and buys out any competitor that challenges that, well we call that abusing a monopoly.

If you've been seeing "anti-trust" mentioned a lot with the tech industry lately, it's probably because the tech industry is a huge unregulated market just overflowing with anti-trust concerns.

My point is that competing hotel brands did not need the government's help to come into existence, and the barrier to entry for a new hotel company is insurmountable compared to writing a dating app.

Plenty Of Fish was launched in 2003. They were bought by Match in 2015.

Hinge was launched in 2012. They were bought by Match in 2018.

Meetic was launched in 2001. They were bought by Match in 2009.

I agree, why don't we give other firms the chance to compete organically with Match? And maybe the right way to do that is to block Match from buying them.

I mean, in your scenario, if I had a successful dating app and wanted to be acquired by someone, I could end up being prevented from doing so.