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>>ColinW+(OP)
I mentioned this in the other WEI thread and I’ll do it here again:

Instead of simply flailing our collective arms around complaining about an evil corporation, has anyone written to the respective competition authorities (such as the FTC in the US or CCI in India) about the potential anticompetitive effects of this proposal?

>>supriy+Cy
FTC right now has awful leadership. They only care about blocking mergers and scoring political points.

>>rapsey+AE
It's literally the FTC's job to block most mergers (they are required by law to block bad mergers, see https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui... for details)

Their leadership isn't "awful", their leaders are finally doing their job, for the first time in decades.

>>maxsil+NI
Blocking Meta's acquisition of that VR company was braindead. Absolutely pointless.

>>rapsey+GM
So you're upset about that decision. Fair enough! I can't think of any regulatory agency that hasn't made a decision I thought was terrible at some point or another.

But that doesn't mean that what they do, big picture, is pointless.

>>JohnFe+Ez1
Fact of the matter is acquisitions are a corner stone of the tech economic model. If they actually cared about consumers and competition they would go after MS for bundling Teams. Or MS for round-tripping cash with OpenAI.