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> “We haven’t been shy about explaining why it doesn’t make sense for the FTC to bring a case to trial that requires it to prove something every 17-year-old in America knows is absurd—that Instagram doesn’t compete with TikTok,” she said.

In this hypothetical scenario:

1. Instagram competes with TikTok, winning a minority share of the market.

2. The government decrees that TikTok is anathema and expels them from the market.

3. The government sues Instagram for having a supermajority share of the remaining market.

I feel like there should be a form of estoppel preventing the argument.

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