With the Google trial having revealed the pervasiveness of anticompetitive behaviour in the tech industry, big corporations are turning to Congress to block antitrust agencies from ramping up enforcement efforts after decades of neglect. Now that the industry’s long honeymoon is over, the real struggle is beginning
Yeah we really need these antitrust reforms - just look up how many / what subsidiaries Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. own. For example, Microsoft owns GitHub (biggest market share for CI / CD platform) and basically owns OpenAI (biggest market share for GPTs / AI).
Look up Microsofts Anti-trust lawsuits from the '90’s, this isn’t their first rodeo.
Giving Apple a loan to keep the company out of bankruptcy in the 90’s largely made the anti-trust stuff go away.
lol just googled this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp. they kepp getting away w this