Comment by AnthonyMouse

Laws mostly don't work by actually filing cases. They mostly work by deterring malicious activity because people don't want a case brought against them. The cases are only for the ones who fail to be deterred, which is pretty uncommon for large corporations because they can afford lawyers to tell them what not to do.

The problem comes when you erode what was meant to be a strong antitrust law through decades of narrowing interpretations and then it's not deterring them anymore.

> the law ends up being used to punish declining companies for prior bad behavior.

The solution to this one is to take the politicians out of it and allow customers to file antitrust class actions.