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The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, challenging one of the largest tech acquisitions in history.

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, challenging one of the largest tech acquisitions in history.

It also marks the FTC’s most significant challenge to the tech industry since it sued to break up Facebook-owner Meta in 2020, underscoring US officials’ vocal promises of a tough antitrust enforcement agenda. “Today we seek to stop Microsoft from gaining control over a leading independent game studio and using it to harm competition in multiple dynamic and fast-growing gaming markets,” said Holly Vedova, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, in a statement.

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Sue Microsoft. It's a good thing. Monopoly has to stop.

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They are just prolonging the inevitable both parties expected this to happen this is just going to take longer to finalize the deal.

Stop the monopolies already.

So who is Activision Blizzard? Do we care

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Microsoft doesn’t invent anything. They buy out competitors or simply steal their ideas. They haven’t innovated in a long time

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I figured the FTC would do this considering the size of the deal. This will probably add another year or so and a few more concessions but the deal is getting done.

Pretty much standard procedure for a deal this size. It won't prevent the acquisition, only make it take longer.

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While it would be great for anyone other than the current Activision Blizzard leadership to be in charge...yeah, monopolies are bad. We've been over this before Microsoft!

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What a stupid fucking mountain to die on. This sector alone has FAR bigger problems that weren’t blocked. But also, never mind any other industry you refuse to take similar action for. FTC is worthless. FailedStatesOfAmerica

Normally I wouldn’t agree, but since is Microsoft I say go for it.

Whaaaaat. That sucks. Realistically Microsoft would vastly improve these products Actvision has. They would also give rights to games made by Activision Blizzard to Playstation, Nintendo, and more.

FTC doesn’t even want to WoW to succeed smh

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FTC will lose and Sony won't get anything now. Such waste of time and money.

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Why? Activision is awful.

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Wow😮 Anyway They have it.

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Bigger problems in the world than preventing a company from buying Call of Duty.

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