Is the FTC Really Playing Chess?

The FTC was looking at each merger in isolation without understanding what Google wasn't intending to do with all the pieces. The case is based on hurting through a Monopolyization Act rather than simply a merger review or a price fixing case. It gets away by being so powerful that people are afraid of it, but also byBeing so complicated that you cannot put a simple tagline on in a newspaper saying, this is what they've done.