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Soon enough Google will face the fate of Ma Bell
by geggam 8y ago
Soon enough Google will face the fate of Ma Bell
- giobox 8y agoNot so sure. We live in a very different time, and appetites for breaking up very large companies with dominant market positions in the US seemed to die with the Clinton administration’s failed attempt on Microsoft.
- int_19h 8y agoIt's not just appetites. The laws themselves have been reinterpreted, and the AT&T breakup happened right as it was going on - it might have not happened 10 years later. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/robert-borks-america/ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/robert-bork...
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoBe split up only to later recombine into a larger entity?
- geggam 8y agoNot sure, I cant get a feel for society as a whole. If the apathy is actually gone or its just those pockets of "I want to be angry" still kicking
- jessaustin 8y ago...at tremendous profit to executives and bankers. All of the resources that various investors sank into building "competing" infrastructure, consumed through strong-armed acquisitions as everyone slowly realized that FCC was just as opposed to competition as they always have been.
- ronnier 8y agoTimes have changed. It’ll never happen as it creates risks of a Chinese competitor taking hold, and the US government doesn’t want that.