> Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved. Many of the issues we face with big tech is because lawmakers are to

> Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved. Many of the issues we face with big tech is because lawmakers are to inept at seeing the long term consequences of the deals they themselfs approved. It’s hard to see how that would happen after Robert Bork (and SCOTUS) reduced the criteria for antitrust enforcement to ”it causes higher prices for the consumer” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox