Spyke
kingshrubb
lemmy.world

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

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conciselyverbosereply
kbin.social

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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RightHandOfIkaros
lemmy.world

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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RightHandOfIkarosreply
lemmy.world

I don't know why people are down voting you just because they don't like the government.

You must be new to Lemmy, but the voting system on Lemmy is even more of a wild west than Reddit's was/is. I can only guess that is because of the significantly smaller userbase, so biases and other factors are more easily visible through votes. Smaller sample pool makes smaller voices much louder and such.

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Mereoreply
lemmy.ca

I'm not new to Lemmy. I was just venting my frustrating against this attitude.

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paultimate14
lemmy.world

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"

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