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Current (US) laws, if I understand correctly, designed to prevent leveraging success in one market to harm your competitors in another. For example if Chrome w
by korantu 6y ago
Current (US) laws, if I understand correctly, designed to prevent leveraging success in one market to harm your competitors in another.
For example if Chrome would only work with google docs and not microsoft live.
USA does not have laws to break up companies simply for being too big or even for being used by majority of customers.
- mythz 6y agoUS Anti trust laws applies to monopolies [1] where one of the penalties for abusing a monopoly is breaking up the company which was famously done to Standard Oil and AT&T. The EU have found Google guilty of antitrust violations and fined them a record €1.5 billion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Monopoly_and_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Mo...