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by judge2020 1836 days ago
This is because it's just a sale of intellectual property (or physical property) from one company to the other - the U.S. prides itself on the individual liberty to do so, and because corporations are legal persons they're also allowed to do that. That's why, if the government or someone else thinks a certain sale is anticompetitive, you have to make a case that they shouldn't be allowed to exercise that liberty.