> The idea that a severance of Google’s alleged monopoly would cause a collapse of the competition actually undermines Mozilla’s point and strengthen’s the US’s point, ironically enough.
It might strengthen the US's case that there is an antitrust problem, but if the remedies don't actually fix the problem but instead make things worse, it certainly undercuts their case for the remedy.
Is that true? The breakup of Ma Bell probably caused all kinds of short term pain, but in the long term it helped consumers. I don’t think that the short term pain is a great rationale to not enforce antitrust law, if Google indeed meets that standard.
It might strengthen the US's case that there is an antitrust problem, but if the remedies don't actually fix the problem but instead make things worse, it certainly undercuts their case for the remedy.