"Remember when the government broke up Standard Oil and AT&T? Those were the days. Now? We have five tech giants with trillion-dollar market caps. The government is outgunned, outmanned, and outspent. Lina Khan’s FTC tried to block Microsoft’s Activision deal. They lost.
The giants are too big. They have armies of lawyers. They poach former FTC officials. They’re playing chess while the government is playing checkers."
As Google has won its antitrust case (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html), it's worth keeping in mind what we wrote back in 2023.
"Remember when the government broke up Standard Oil and AT&T? Those were the days. Now? We have five tech giants with trillion-dollar market caps. The government is outgunned, outmanned, and outspent. Lina Khan’s FTC tried to block Microsoft’s Activision deal. They lost.
The giants are too big. They have armies of lawyers. They poach former FTC officials. They’re playing chess while the government is playing checkers."