Mail trail shows how Big Tech is pulling tricks from monopolists' handbook

Even though antitrust law might need to be amended to clarify what is -and isn't - acceptable practices by big tech, these documents show that there is enough evidence to file antitrust lawsuits

In the late 1990s, when David Boies prosecuted the Microsoft antitrust trial, he told me that despite the thousands of documents, emails and deposition transcripts that were rolled into court each day, no more than 50 were the key to the government’s case. He memorised them and knew right where to find them if he needed them in the middle of a cross-examination.

Of those 50, maybe two dozen were the kind you just don’t forget — bald, vivid illustrations of what the government hoped to prove: that Microsoft was using its monopoly power to squeeze Netscape, the upstart browser company