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    Of course Zuck is going to say this. It would be newsworthy if he didn’t. From the linked transcript:

    “You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies … if she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government… We care about our country and want to work with our government. But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.”

    This is milquetoast stuff. Look at what happened when, under a Dem president Janet Reno in 1997, Microsoft got slapped with an antitrust suit that led to, at least briefly, a court order breaking it up:

    “To heck with Janet Reno,” said executive vice president Steve Ballmer. The Justice Department is “ill informed,” asserted the company in one court filing. If it wanted to, said another, Microsoft had the right to bundle “even a ham sandwich” into Windows 95.

    Fast forward a few years and Bill Gates is standing on stage with another Dem president, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The same thing might well happen with Zuck.