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by readonthegoapp 1216 days ago
https://archive.ph/QuoBQ

isn't the way this works as follows?

  - bigtechco buys smalltechco
  - merger happens for a few months, drama, layoffs, etc.
  - doj sues
  - judge/supremes block
well, i see some articles talking about some "recent DOJ victories after a string of losses", so hopefully i'm wrong.

i don't understand why things work like this -- seems strange.

i did read how the supremes decided a long time ago that mergers/acquisitions were always good and right as long as prices went down or stayed low-ish temporarily -- that was the fiction they created, anyways.

and what's the pre-suit meeting about.

  DOJ: hey, stop this.
  ADO: no.
  DOJ: ok, then we filing suit.
  ADO: ok.
  DOJ: that's it?
  ADO: yes.
  DOJ: u sure? we really gonna do it..!!???
  ADO: yeah, we know, thanks.