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by azernik 3050 days ago
Generally American and European anti-trust law as currently interpreted only cares about harm to the consumer.
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At least in Europe Google has been successfully sued by competitors.
Less competition is generally harmful to the consumer.
conceptually. However, the metric we use to dictacte that conceptual argument is what screws us (Americans). We have chosen increase in price as the primary metric.

It becomes the responsibility of the accuser to prove and provide evidence of increased prices based on monopoly position. The Exponent podcast did a nice description of this last summer I believe (not sure what episode).