Antitrust - A Weird Bet?

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In the us, this law is called the access act, and it's doing really well. In europe, it's clled the digital markets act. Both of them ar actually racing along because, as you say, there's this by partisan concessus. And if iy're going to be perfectly honest, they also have a bit of a tail wind from telecoms and entertainment, who would love to smash the power of tekand those sectors. I think they're making a weird bet. Because their bet is like, we put a antitrust into a coma forty years ago. We're going to wake it up to fight, like one more battle, and then it's just

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