>> and effectively punish consumers for choosing the best option for them Consumers today are fat and lazy. Whatever small part of me is a consumer, I don't ca

>> and effectively punish consumers for choosing the best option for them Consumers today are fat and lazy. Whatever small part of me is a consumer, I don't care about that part. We should care about producers and their right to participate in a fair and open marketplace. The biggest problem in people's lives today is not related to a lack of options in terms of what to consume, it is related to a lack of options in terms of what they can produce and how they can produce it. >> Start with the most obvious error: Bing was not even launched until 2009 Actually, her statement makes perfect logical sense. OP is the one who doesn't understand history. If the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft did not succeed, Internet Explorer would have been the only internet browser which could run on Windows (which itself was a near total monopoly in the personal computing space) and therefore, through their control of IE, they could have created Bing and made it the only search engine in the IE address bar. Maybe they could even have blocked google.com completely if it started to become a threat or maybe they could have added an overlay on top of google.com so that they could replace Google ads with their own ads... The possibilities of what Microsoft could have done to stop Google would have been endless if it wasn't for the antitrust cases brought against Microsoft. If anything, her point is too clever and too insightful for some people to comprehend. Basically Elizabeth Warren seems to actually understand how the world works and she understands the huge impact of goverment policy on the economy instead of pretending that there is no impact.