Antitrust describes laws and actions meant to stop companies from becoming so powerful that they crush competition.
From "anti" meaning "against" and "trust," an old word for a large business group that controlled an entire industry. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, governments created antitrust laws to break up these huge monopolies.
Antitrust law exists because some companies got so big they could set prices almost like private governments. Modern tech giants are now tested by the same ideas that once targeted oil and railroad empires.
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