Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google

Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:23AM (#23203594)

> which I understand to be "only a monopolist would make it easy for consumers to choose a competitor"

No, not "only".

The argument is that while non-monopolists have a motivation to add those choices, monopolists have a motivation too.

Therefore seeing the end result isn't very strong evidence for whether something is a monopoly or not.

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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by papeda on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:10AM (#23204000)

I agree with your statement. The comment I was responding to does not:

> If anything this is evidence of Google’s search engine monopoly and Google built the selection feature into Chrome it in furtherance of that monopoly power

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