Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war

Re:Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’... by shadowgovt on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:43PM (#28993508)

Always important to note the philosophy underpinning monopoly differs in the EU and the US.

In particular for US law, this part:

> having a dominant market position and using that for anti-competitive behavior

For the EU, the question can stop there; in the US, there's an additional burden of proof that anti-competitive behavior harms the consumer.

Google is allowed to build a giant search empire because so far, courts have agreed that while it's hard to compete with Google, the consumer is not harmed because a competitor is always a click away and barrier to switching is low.

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Re:Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’... by codyb on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:58PM (#28996247)

In this case though seems like there’s plenty of consumers harmed? Here it would be the ad buyers and sellers who cannot use other exchanges and end up paying more or receiving less than they could in a fairer market with the bidding system Google and Facebook colluded to quash.

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