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Defining ‘dominance’: the vexing question at the centre of antitrust and the pushback on Big Tech

Defining ‘dominance’: the vexing question at the centre of antitrust and the pushback on Big Tech
Defining ‘dominance’: the vexing question at the centre of antitrust and the pushback on Big Tech
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on Online Platforms and Market Power in the Rayburn House office Building, Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020.

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Bringing political and geopolitical issues into the picture will further complicate the matter and may end up hurting fair competition, which antitrust legislation claims to protect.

Large creatures draw admiration from far, and fear when viewed in proximity. Over the last century, the federal government in the United States has moved to dilute the dominance of US Steel, Standard Oil, and more recently, AT&T, around 36 years ago. Big Tech’s first tryst with antitrust was when Microsoft was hauled up for its alleged anticompetitive practice of bundling its Internet Explorer browser with the Windows operating system, to
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The Economic Times