Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.
Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
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