DoJ and other parts of the government have been successfully convinced that consequential enforcement is counterproductive to their greater anti-trust goals. b

DoJ and other parts of the government have been successfully convinced that consequential enforcement is counterproductive to their greater anti-trust goals. basically, because the government also wants competition in the market, they can't be the reason why there is no competition after they curb stomp one of the major few competitors in many fields. there is some degree of truth in this, but it has also been co-opted to prevent any meaningful consequence for people and their organizations, once they are big enough