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Other people in the thread have argued that "consumer harm" is difficult to prove and easy to disprove, and not strong enough of a criterion because the harms from monopolization can span decades, and don't just apply to direct consumers.



And this is where anti-trust lost the plot (and popular support).

Anti-trust ignores situations with CLEAR customer harm, and goes after folks like Apple (which many consumers like) for blocking scammers from doing the noncancellable subscriptions and other things in the store.

This diminishes confidence in govt and unfortunately increases confidence in big business.

Literally thousands of folks getting scammed daily online - govt does nothing. Some business hurt (and consumers SAVE money) -whammo.




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