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What's the goal or endgame for these antitrust cases... If antitrust is entirely delegated to courts, it's hard to see how it ever becomes more than a "complia
by dalbasal 6y ago
What's the goal or endgame for these antitrust cases...
If antitrust is entirely delegated to courts, it's hard to see how it ever becomes more than a "compliance" issue. Fines and/or mandatory adjustments to current MOs. That's hardly trustbusting.
The big pieces aren't a secret. Market share, the big competitive dynamics, income streams and overall structure of the search-ads "industry" and its adjacent, also Google dominated markets like android, youtube and chrome.
How is a judge supposed to decide what to do about all this... Seems like the wrong tool for the job.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe goal is to make Google produce evidence in a way that wouldn’t be appropriate outside the context of a court case. Antitrust lawsuits inevitably end with a policy-driven settlement between the target and the DOJ, although the court can in principle order a breakup as they initially did in the Microsoft case.