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Facebook active users have increased so their influence is only increasing.

But I disagree that Facebook is a monopoly -- their market is advertising and there is still plenty of active competition in the online advertising marketplace.

>they are getting beaten up by competitors

Sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407857

stock price being down 70% is not the same thing as losing dominance

Sometimes we get lucky. Smart civilizations don't count on luck.

"There's no need to get the government involved, the person stabbing you in the face will stop when they get tired."

Right! Better to destroy a business via government intervention “just in case”

Consumer protection is not "destroying a business"

In that case they literally almost always only get involved long after the stabbing is over.

So by that argument allow the merger and if it turns out antitrust fine the ever living shit out of them.