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by ChrisLomont 2661 days ago
>There are laws against businesses forming monopolies in the United States

That is not true. There are laws against certain behavior by monopolies.

Here's the Sherman Antitrust Act you mentioned, which makes this clear [1].

As such, it's not legal to simply break up a monopoly solely because they're a monopoly. They have to exhibit specified illegal behavior first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890