Xbox Acquisition |OT6| If this is about competition, let us have competition

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I haven’t posted any thoughts on the Activision acquisition since all the CMA related stuff started a couple of weeks ago. But I finally had time this morning. The post is over in the Activision acquisition thread if anyone is interested.

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard Discussion Thread (Part 1)

I know this is not news to anyone here, but I feel compelled to say it anyway. Regulators are supposed to protect consumers, not competing firms. The problem is, from the regulators point of view protecting competing firms in the short run may actually protect consumers in the long run. Since regulators don’t have crystal balls it is not always clear when this is the case. With that said, it sure looks like the CMA is more concerned with protecting Sony than consumers (right now, based on imper…