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| Rafie said: Wow....what an acquisition! I can only hope there isn't an acquisition bigger than this. At which point, MS would be on the radar for monopoly. Holy smokes! |
On a global level they are a long ways off from that, but certainly in America and legally speaking they are heading that way. They better be careful. I'm going to post something politicak because it impacts the situation, if you don't want to read it then skip the below:
In the past, big corporations could count on Republicans in USA being pro business, whereas Democrats were the monopoly busters trying to be pro worker. Nowadays, since 2016, the Republicans have shifted more to fighting for the working class (citizens doing farming, steel factory workers, etc.) as Democrats have shifted more towards helping out the ultra poor and non-citizens. Add to that that Democrats are still anti-monopoly and the fact that many big companies have gone woke and are trying to cancel conservative mindsets in their workplace and you now have Republicans (like Senator Hawley) that are wanting to break up big tech companies. So you've got both major American political parties actually on the same page-ish over something. I wouldn't be surprised if Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple all get split up into multiple companies each in the coming decade or two.
