Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ...
by rvz on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:00AM
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> Buying a company to prevent even a hint of competition seems like quintessential antitrust.
Then someone else will buy them then, given that Google was about to buy Twitch but dropped it due to the same reasons and instead went to Amazon.
Won't be surprised to see them do it again or another >$1TN company do this. Who knows, maybe one will create a bill which prevents >$100BN companies from out right buying out other multi-billion dollar companies. Oh wait. [0]
Then someone else will buy them then, given that Google was about to buy Twitch but dropped it due to the same reasons and instead went to Amazon.
Won't be surprised to see them do it again or another >$1TN company do this. Who knows, maybe one will create a bill which prevents >$100BN companies from out right buying out other multi-billion dollar companies. Oh wait. [0]
[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/13/hawley-antitrust-bill-trus...