alt Hacker NewsThis argument seems asinine. We've had 12 of the last 24 years with democrat presidents or majority..and how many monopolies have been broken up in that time span? zero. Democrats do push more anti merger antics than Republicans... but come on. there aren't even two sides. its money vs not money and anyone still buying into the reality show of our political system is deluded.
These cases take upwards of 10 years to resolve. Modern large corporations generate tons and tons of paper documentation which must be ingested and indexed and analyzed to produce the legal case. This takes a lot of resources and time to get right. And meanwhile the corporate legal team is making motions and arguments in court as you're doing discovery. What's asinine is expecting these cases to get resolved within a year. Whether the anticipated ruling is in favor of the DOJ or not, the case needs to be properly adjudicated before the court and I don't see that taking less than a few years to be fair. The flip side of monopoly prosecution is that a lot of people lose their livelihoods and we unfortunately do need to take this into account in our justice system, regardless of how much we want to stick it to Ticketmaster.