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I don't think it's logical to say that just because consumers don't directly pay they aren't harmed. What if increased competition would make it such that there

I don't think it's logical to say that just because consumers don't directly pay they aren't harmed. What if increased competition would make it such that there would be a way better search engine than today's Google? It's certainly harder to prove harm than monopolistic price fixing though.

clucas 8y ago
In response to your argument, the U.S. courts would provably respond like the judge in My Cousin Vinny: "That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out objection. Overruled." Silly as it is, that's just not how antitrust law works in the U.S.