• @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    The government “complains” about megacorps tells you everything you need to know about who sets the rules around here.

    • conciselyverbose
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      24 months ago

      It’s not “the government”. It’s one specific agency of the government. The courts are more “the government” than the FTC is, and they’re the ones who approved the acquisitions.

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    4 months ago

    The FTC has complained about the acquisition literally every step of the way. Not really surprising that they’re complaining about this.

    “In continuing its opposition to the deal, the FTC ignores the reality that the deal itself has substantially changed. Since the FTC lost in court last July, Microsoft was required by the UK competition authority to restructure the acquisition globally and therefore did not acquire the cloud streaming rights to Activision Blizzard games in the United States. Additionally, Sony and Microsoft signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation on even better terms than Sony had before.” -Microsoft

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    284 months ago

    If only there were some regulatory body the government had that could set things right!..right?

  • @[email protected]
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    124 months ago

    Lol the Microsoft response is just trying to distract the court by saying “hey look at this other stuff we are doing that isn’t anticompetitive”