The only reason Giphy isn't reproduced is because there's no need. If FB shut off Giphy tomorrow, do you honestly think it'd take more than a few days for some

The only reason Giphy isn't reproduced is because there's no need. If FB shut off Giphy tomorrow, do you honestly think it'd take more than a few days for some other GIF extension to take over? Really? If nothing else, Tenor and other existing companies would immediately fill the void. > The idea that regulators shouldn't regulate because someone (the regulated?) might be upset is laughable. So let me address this straw man by stating what I'm actually saying: 1. The time to block an acquisition is prior to the acquisition; 2. If you placed conditions on that acquisition (which regulators often do), you should need an actual violation of those conditions rather than a theoretical violation; 3. Regulators should focus on actual problems. In the US, the Sherman Act was a result of the Standard Oil monopoly. Standard Oil controlled production, refining and distribution of petroleum products (primarily kerosene). It's just not the same with many of the so-called big tech problems today. FB's most troublesome acquisition is WhatsApp and even in that case it was a company started by someone who famously got rejected by a job with Facebook in the late 2000s (ie Brian Acton). If you can establish a real threat to a company after that company has a huge lead, it's pretty good evidence that that company doesn't have the wall around their "monopoly" you think they do. There's a lot of political grandstanding around this now. My point is that companies shouldn't be regulated. It's that rolling back Giphy is just such a pointless exercise of that regulatory power.