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This was literally the same rhetoric used by Ma Bell in that antitrust case: "You think digital communication is a market? It's not! Communication is the market
by Jasper_ 4y ago
This was literally the same rhetoric used by Ma Bell in that antitrust case: "You think digital communication is a market? It's not! Communication is the market, and consumers already have the option of mailing a letter, or messaging by telegram!" Defendants always want the market as wide as possible (to look like they're just a small fish in a wide ocean) while prosecution wants the market as narrow as possible. This will get sorted out.
The big difference between Ma Bell and now is that antitrust is graded on the consumer welfare standard, which hilariously says that as long as prices go down, it's not an antitrust violation.