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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by sandworm101 on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:18PM (#23199096)
>> through market competition not through impairing the ability of smaller companies to enter markets.

So? In the real world, antitrust isn't about how a company became dominant. The fact that a company is dominant is what matters. Legislatures know that having a market run by one entity is inevitably a bad thing. Google's success, its market dominance, is the very harm that antitrust is meant to address. How Google got there isn't relevant.

If the government deems an organization too big, there is always something on which to hang the prosecution hat. Price fixing, tying, vertical restraint, dumping... they will find something.

Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by malandrew on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:39AM (#23200530)
> Legislatures know that having a market run by one entity is inevitably a bad thing.

Isn't that what government is? One entity running the market?

Governments don't like competition.

Whether it is one entity or many, what matters is the welfare of the consumer, which includes allowing competition to arise that can do better.