It doesn’t matter that the companies aren’t pure monopolies. Under the law, it doesn’t even matter if some of them were pure monopolies.
The concentration of power, and the abuse of that power to protect their market share is the problem. It also matters that a small group of corporations have such a tight grip on communications services, that they can ‘de-platform’ anyone — even a sitting President of the USA.
You’re probably right about the court time — but, you’re wrong about the merits of the case. It’s long overdue. Ma Bell was broken up for far less.
It VERY MUCH matters that they are not monopolies. Because if we just decide “well they’re big, so they gotta be broken up” then it’s all about whether or not the government likes you. And if they don’t ANY company can get screwed cause “they have power”.
We are supposed to be a society of laws. And when we start saying “don’t care if they’re a monopoly according to the law” then we’re not.
The breakup of Ma Bell was STUPID. We MADE THEM a monopoly on purpose. So that we would have the best phone system in the world. Which we did. And then we broke them up, and now we’re at the bottom of the western world, our phone system sucks, we’re generations behind Europe and Japan. All of whom were smart enough to know that your national phone system SHOULD be a monopoly.
And actually these companies have done NOTHING. Because they are not monopolies nothing they’ve done has broken any monopoly law. They should not be broken up. Nothing good will come from it, other than grossly increasing government power.