Asmongold slams \u201cPlayStation Fanboy\u201d FTC after Microsoft-Activision injunction YouTube\/Asmongold ClipsAsmongold flamed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for blocking the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger, stating that they \u201cturn a blind eye\u201d to Google and Apple stores having \u201c99% market share\u201d in the app space, and asking \u201cis the FTC full of PlayStation fanboys?\u201d Activision-Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft was announced back in January of 2022, but the merger seems to run into problems at every turn. The newest obstacle in the way seems to be the report that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will file an injunction to block the Microsoft\u2019sacquisition of Activision Blizzard. Asmongold, who has been following this project since its inception, was outraged by the FTC\u2019s decision, as he thinks the FTC has let bigger monopolies form in the United States. His full Tweet reads: \u201cHow the f**k are these clowns doing this but somehow turn a blind eye when the Google play store and Apple play store have 99% market share on the monetization and distribution of smartphone apps? Something nearly every American uses. Is the FTC full of PlayStation fanboys?\u201d Twitter reacts to Asmongold slamming the FTC\u2019s decision Users of Twitter were split in their reaction to Asmongold\u2019s opinion, with some siding with the Twitch streamer, bringing up examples of big company monopolies that formed within FTC\u2019s reach. \u201cGood question. It keeps going back and forth, and by the way things are going who knows? Disney got away with literally any purchase they make,\u201d wrote one user. Some others disagreed with Asmongold, though, supporting the FTC in stopping the deal from going through. \u201cWell, it\u2019s a good time to stop these monopolies, with an injunction,\u201d said one user, underlining that the FTC\u2019s decision will stop a possible monopoly from forming and growing later down the line. The merger between Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard is going to take quite a while to complete it seems, and there is very little to do other than to wait and see how things will ultimately shake out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold slams \u201cPlayStation Fanboy\u201d FTC after Microsoft-Activision injunction YouTube\/Asmongold ClipsAsmongold flamed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for blocking the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger, stating that they \u201cturn a blind eye\u201d to Google and Apple stores having \u201c99% market share\u201d in the app space, and asking \u201cis the FTC full of PlayStation fanboys?\u201d Activision-Blizzard acquisition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}