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by canadian_voter 3345 days ago
The threat of anti-trust to Google is good enough, I hope it's not acted on.

I can guarantee you that someone at Google had studied game theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-credible_threat

Edit: To clarify, a threat must be credible for it to be effective. So a threat is only "good enough" if there is a reasonable chance it will be carried out. For example, you actually have to have nukes and be willing to use them if you threaten to nuke somebody, otherwise they'll just ignore you.