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That law exists to explicitly make certain types of unfair competition illegal. That's the point. So yeah, I pointed out that there's an underlying ethical principle, and that principle got encoded into the law, and MS (and now Google) violated both the ethical principle and the actual law.

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The law is very vague and never says ‘unfair’ anywhere. Lots of competitive practices many consider unfair is de-facto legal (in that large companies like Comcast are literally doing them in the open right now, and have been for a decade plus with nary a peep from regulators).

Feel free to read the code, sections 1 through 7.

It says ‘in restraint of trade or commerce’. But how is Google restraining trade or commerce in a way any different (or even more than!) a broadcaster getting exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics for instance? And how is that not Unfair too?

[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1]

Section 2 makes it illegal to Monopolize or attempt to Monopolize - but never defines it.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/2

None of the other sections seem interesting.

In law the general definition of monopoly covers so many markets, and is also based on ‘unreasonable’ efforts to restrict competition. Reasonable is doing a lot work here, as that can go pretty far!

[https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/monopoly]

So what law exactly do you think they are breaking and why? Are they taking unreasonable steps to prevent others from competing with them? If so, what would be reasonable for them to do instead?