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mf-TOM-HANK t1_j16f9wo wrote

I'm absolutely not a "both sides are the same" guy but antitrust has not been a big priority for any of the presidents for probably as long as I've been alive. I'm not plugged into the antitrust law sphere at all but it feels like Microsoft back in the early 2000s was the last high profile antitrust case. Maybe there have been big ones that I'm not aware of but the trend has been for decades that big companies get bigger and gobble up smaller companies with little to no resistance.

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mf-TOM-HANK t1_j13otwc wrote

Which may be exactly why they stop the merger. If they act stunned by Microsoft's supposed brazen disregard for antitrust and halt this particular merger then they can pat themselves on the back and pass through another ghoulish Sprint-TMobile type of merger that actually has major real life consequences.

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