Korea is first in open platforms! Korea has rejected digital commerce monopolies and recognized open platforms as a right. This marks a major milestone in the 45-year history of personal computing. It began in Cupertino, but the forefront today is in Seoul.https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1432644358646415363 …
It's (old) US law, so, it's incredibly tortured and it's not straightforward to apply. It would take a long time to explain how it works, but the TL;DR answer is that only a court of law can decide what the "relevant market" is - and this is where the battle is mostly fought.
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But separately, one thing that many people get wrong is that you don't have to _be_ a monopoly to be sanctioned under anti-trust law. What you have to be is _trying_ to be a monopoly :)
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So for example here is a section of the Clayton Act, (highlight mine):pic.twitter.com/17MZaDRY8k
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