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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Harry, I'll respectfully point out that US antitrust law--which is what DOJ and the FTC are charged with enforcing--for the past hundred years has been about protecting consumers from corporations, not about protecting consumers from their own personal choices. Or protecting corporations from each other.
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Yes, I know, and I thoroughly approve of anti-trust laws. I just thought it slightly ironic to see a complaint about "nanny state interference in free trade" when this whole DOJ lawsuit is the result of such "interference". Presumably the view is that it's OK for the government to interfere if doing so benefits the consumer, but not OK if it benefits corporations?