It was absolutely actionable and implemented as policy for decades, what are you even talking about? Your phrasing pretends this isn’t exactly how antitrust enforcement worked before the much more recent approach began.

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amazingamazing 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It really was not. Go look at the success rate of enforcement.

	▲	esseph 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're alluding to some second order effects which are real but also able to be dealt with, and have been. Montgomery Ward thought it was "too big to fail" and too powerful to regulate. So, what happened? If the US government wants to, and it has in the past, it just takes your business at gunpoint. 4 soldiers walked into the ultra-conservative owners office and made him leave. Two of them picked up his arms and legs, took him outside, and deposited him on the sidewalk. > a major U.S. CEO being physically evicted from his own company by armed troops became one of the most famous news photos of the home-front war