District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said the deal, the largest in the history of the tech industry, deserved scrutiny but the FTC hadn't shown that it would cause serious harm. The FTC had sought to ax the deal, saying it will hurt competition. Khan and the agency suffered a major defeat Tuesday when a federal judge declined to block Microsoft’s looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. The hearing comes as the agency has been embroiled in several legal cases against technology companies and as Khan - an outspoken critic of Big Tech before becoming the agency’s head - has tried, not always successfully, to toughen government regulation of those companies and prevent them from growing any larger. “Recent decades, however, have vividly illustrated how Americans lose out when markets become more consolidated and less competitive.” “Our competition mission is driven by the tenet that vigorous antitrust enforcement is critical to the growth and dynamism of our economy, as well as to our shared prosperity and liberty,” Khan said.
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