Honestly, I’m most surprised by the effort.

What you’re missing, is the fact that one rogue conservative judge (which the SCOTUS declined to challenge) made FTC’s job nearly impossible — they had to demonstrate clear harm. Monopolies, and the corporate mergers that produce them, cause harm by their very existence, but it’s subtle and extremely difficult to…

let me give you an example even a simple minded brain worm infested dumbass like you can understand

Neither of us is a law wizard, but the wizards at the FTC think it does violate antitrust laws, so I’m going with that.

It’s also bad for the world, if you care about that.

“Please explain how IP exclusivity is an antitrust issue”
By definition. Please understand what words mean before you use them.

“when it’s been a standard practice across the industry for decades”
Completely irrelevant. “We’ve always done it this way, therefore it isn’t wrong” is a stupid argument.

“The merger doesn’t hurt consumers in any ways”
Wrong
“that aren’t already happening regularly”
Weasel words to get around your previous wrongness.

That wasn’t my argument, just a statement of fact.

You should probably heed your own advice. Do some actual research and you’d know what happens when big companies merge.

“company A has an 80% revenue market share”

The FTC has to have a trial before a judge trained in antitrust issues (Unlike this judge, who did not have any background in that area.)

I agree. This is completely in line with “the corporation said they would be nice.” line of thinking that has fucked this country.

I have both too dude but consumer friendly choice? On what planet? They were the ones still making you need xbox live to use Netflix a few years ago and to play free to play games online.

it’s over. BREAKING: Microsoft and UK regulators agree to pause their Activision battle to negotiate. It looks like the CMA is ready to talk about a potential remedy in the UK. 

The imagination is far sexier that the reality.

Like most things that don’t have a truly practical day to day function, it’s boring as fuck. Yeah, it’s cool getting an interesting response on occasion, but otherwise, I’d rather take a shit

It’s my property and I will do with it as I please.

Handlebears poppin’ off over here.

Thanks!  At least I understand this now.  I’m unsure if I agree with it or not (I need to research #s), but I understand the argument now.

And it’s plenty shady at 2,800 meters.

He is a giant among octopusologists.