I wouldn't be surprised if the whole antitrust suit against Microsoft in the 90s was some wringing to show what happens if you don't pick sides with the Clintons et. al. The whole case always seemed like a witch-hunt.

If the precedent it set had any notion of reality, then what Apple and Google have been doing with phones (for Apple unable to side-load apps, forced usage of their browser engine and for both unremovable apps as well as other real anticompetitive behavior) would have seen an even larger reaction. It seems they were proactive however and made their allegiance known sooner.

I'm expecting that Elon will be a target of goverment force in some way or another in the not so distant future especially with SpaceX. While he seems miles ahead of Boeing and other more entrenched companies, I have a bad feeling that where the lobbyist take a politician for free dinner matters more than having working products.