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How was their acquisition of Instagram and Whatsapp legal? Haven't antitrust laws broken up companies for less?

• input_sh 6y ago
  Pre-Reagan, sure. Since then, none. There's zero interest in breaking up monopolies in the US from both Democrats and Republicans. Hell, today's AT&T has more market share than Bell Systems did before it was split up. EU, on the other hand, appears to be slowly progressing towards the goal of breaking up tech monopolies. Leaked plans would shake up the tech quite a bit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/eu-vs-big-tech-leaked-enforcement-plans-and-dutch-french-counterproposal https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/eu-vs-big-tech-leaked-...
  • testrun 6y ago
    Nice re-writing of history. Microsoft anti-trust was post Reagan. AT7T now is about 34% market share. The rest is between Verizon, Sprint etc. Not the same as what Bell had.
    • chopin 6y ago
      Microsoft has been broken up?