The FTC failed to land an injunction pausing the deal, something that Microsoft and Activision both said may kill it, but the opposite result now means the acquisition...
The FTC Gets Steamrolled Again, Can’t Pause The Microsoft Activision Deal Before Appeal::The FTC failed to land an injunction pausing the deal, something that Microsoft and Activision both said may kill it, but the opposite result now means the acquisition…
Props for trying… we’ve had decades of corporations growing in influence unimpeded. The government needs to step up like they did with the Robber Barons and Ma Bell.
It’s a dumb hill to die anyway. Their main opponent is the one hoarding exclusives, and maintaining a monopoly. Maybe FTC should’ve stepped in during GitHub / LinkedIn acquisition? Or when they were staking in OpenAI?
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Props for trying… we’ve had decades of corporations growing in influence unimpeded. The government needs to step up like they did with the Robber Barons and Ma Bell.
As an Xbox junkie, I want more stupid games on the Xbox platform.
But even I can recognize how bad this is for the industry.
It’s a dumb hill to die anyway. Their main opponent is the one hoarding exclusives, and maintaining a monopoly. Maybe FTC should’ve stepped in during GitHub / LinkedIn acquisition? Or when they were staking in OpenAI?
Corpos gonna corpo.
Bring back Balmer.
Then we at least can be entertained while this “money talks; bullshit walks” charade continues.
Ribbit