The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.
This antitrust thing will blow over.
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
