A D.C. Federal Court, on Monday, Dismissed Antitrust Suits by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and State Attorneys General seeking to Break-Up Facebook's Social Networking Monopoly, dealing a Sassive Blow to Washington Regulators' attempt to Rein-In Silicon Valley's Giants.

In a Ruling that goes to the Heart of the Case, U.S. District Judge, James Boasberg, in Washington, D.C., said Prosecutors didn’t offer Enough Explanation for how they Determined that Facebook Controls more than 60% of the Social Networking Market.

Social Networking “services are free to use, and the exact metes and bounds of what even constitutes a [social networking], i.e., which features of a company’s mobile app or website are included in that definition and which are excluded, are hardly crystal clear,” Boasberg Ruled in an Opinion Dismissing the FTC’s Case. “The FTC’s inability to offer any indication of the metric(s) or method(s) it used to calculate Facebook’s market share renders its vague '60%-plus' assertion too speculative and conclusory to go forward.”

In a separate Decision, Boasberg also found that State Attorneys General waited Too Long to bring a Suit Challenging Facebook’s 2012 Instagram Purchase and the 2014 Acquisition of WhatsApp.

The Judge said both State and Federal Prosecutors could have 30 days to Try Again and File New Antitrust Complaints against Facebook that address his Concerns.










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