> For the last 40 years, Google would never have been challenged as a monopoly because its products were free to consumers, hence there could be no harm to them

> For the last 40 years, Google would never have been challenged as a monopoly because its products were free to consumers, hence there could be no harm to them, hence no monopoly. Same for Facebook. This is demonstrably false. The Microsoft anti-trust case began with them giving away Internet Explorer which led to further discoveries of them harming the performance of or outright blocking other applications and eventually that they subsidized manufacturers. If Google, Facebook, et al is giving away a product for free (similar to dumping) to build a moat around their other products.. that's one thing. If that dumping harms or disrupts competitive products, that's another. It has nothing to do with free but with "harm".