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> big acquisitions that, in hindsight, made Big Tech more competitive (the most common examples are Google acquiring DoubleClick and YouTube, and Facebook acquiring WhatsApp and Instagram).

How did these acquisitions make big tech more competitive?

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I’m saying it made those companies more competitive (as in “better equipped to compete”), not that it made the various markets more competitive (as in “characterized by competition by multiple actors”).

“Big Tech” tends to refer to the companies.

Edit: To clarify further, I’m not casting those claims about older Big Tech acquisitions as wrong or misinformed. Nor am I trying to make any specific argument about the Democrats’ strategy / Neo-Brandeisian thought here. Just directly answering the question I replied to. I’m quite confident that this particular case against Microsoft, as argued by the regulators, is quite weak and that the political tail is wagging the dog here.