A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Facebook, as well as a parallel case brought by 48 state attorneys general, dealing a major setback to the agency’s complaint, which could have resulted in Facebook divesting Instagram and WhatsApp.
[…]However, the court ruled Monday that the FTC failed to prove its main contention and the cornerstone of the case: that Facebook holds monopoly power in the U.S. personal social networking market.
I mean, I hear Friendster and MySpace are the bomb.
Did they do it for Microsoft in 2000 ? Google did it preventively in 2015 under the Alphabet “umbrella”. They cannot break apart their “champions”. These are such massive sources of revenue for the USA.
Kochise,
Unfortunately that’s the way it works here. Our wealthy companies (and individuals) receive a lot of protection from prosecution and are relatively immune. Moreover the political dynamics are such that holding corporations accountable puts politicians in jeopardy whereas doing corporate favors almost guaranties a lifelong career, corrupt though it may be.
I’d be surprised if some of these judges know how to send an email
Come on, even Hillary Clinton uses Gmail…
Kochise,
I’d like to think she uses postfix or exim… It would give her more hacker creds, haha.