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I'm not an expert in antitrust, but I feel like this gives Facebook a stronger defense against governments trying to break up the company.

"Look at all the other messaging options out there with millions of users! If people don't like our decisions, users have shown that they can easily leave us for our competitors."

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Anti-trust isn’t as simple as “look how easily users can switch”. Microsoft got busted despite how easy it was to get another browser because they leveraged their position of power to push IE.

Unfortunately anti-trust has become synonymous with whatever scores the administration at the time feels like settling.

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