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>“Before breaking them up, we should see whether they are not just disrupted by a small player beating them out of the market, but by the market shifting, by th
by nikk1 8y ago
>“Before breaking them up, we should see whether they are not just disrupted by a small player beating them out of the market, but by the market shifting, by the interest going somewhere else,” Berners-Lee said.
The implication is that maybe some of the tech giants will one day fall due to their own Achilles Heel. For example, Twitter's case that you cited.
- asaph 8y agoAnd if that doesn't happen then he proposes breaking up the tech giants, which solves the problem how?
- jonathlee 8y agoIt's harder for 100 companies to collude undetected/unchallenged with no viable alternative than for 1-5 massive/politically-savvy companies to tweak results/ban users to fit their political biases. The larger a company is, the easier it is for it to blow-off any lawsuit losses over bad behavior (or simply have bad customer service) and continue those bad practices.