TLDR; Anti-trust laws gets only triggered if consumer welfare might be harmed. The way to measure consumer welfare is by prices. So if price of goods/services remain low then anti-trust lawsuits cannot be brought on. In Internet economy, price of many services provided by BigCos is zero.
Personally I think this is only half of the story because consumer welfare is not just prices but also quality which depends on competition. The suppression of competition was primary clause used for free IE on Windows anti-trust lawsuit.
So I think article is not well researched and is spreading half-truths.
Personally I think this is only half of the story because consumer welfare is not just prices but also quality which depends on competition. The suppression of competition was primary clause used for free IE on Windows anti-trust lawsuit.
So I think article is not well researched and is spreading half-truths.