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It is easy to ascribe bad motives to a person of a party of a different affiliation and to assume this is just selective application of the law to advance polit
by tasty_freeze 7y ago
It is easy to ascribe bad motives to a person of a party of a different affiliation and to assume this is just selective application of the law to advance political goals.
However, there is another way to look at this different from my own political leanings. As little effort as Democrats put into anti-trust prosecutions, Republicans (of the past 30 years) have been anti-anti-trust. In the late 90s when the DOJ had Microsoft on the rack, nominee Bush said he'd stop the antitrust effort. In fact even though MS had been found in violation of antitrust laws, then President Bush stopped the effort to break up MS and instead they were told to make relatively minor changes in their behavior.
https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/06/157258/Bush-Administration-Stops-Microsoft-Breakup https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/06/157258/Bush-Administrati...
So is it that the current administration finally believes there is a place for antitrust, or is it using the law as a political tool?