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Break up Google/Alphabet. Way past time.

• _pmf_ 8y ago
  Would be a much more important case if the EU commission that cared about actual freedom instead of competitors.
  • DenseComet 8y ago
    The bigger problem is how to define what Google is and split it. Many of their platforms post losses like youtube, because they can afford to spend their ad money to prop it up. If you split away youtube, youtube would likely fold. Similar thing with android, Google props up android so they have an ecosystem they can get data from to use for ads. If android was split off, it would have no income stream and likely fold.
    • bsder 8y ago
      > If you split away youtube, youtube would likely fold. I see no problem with this. If you had to pay anything to distribute your video, the quality would soar relative to what we have now.
    • rodgerd 8y ago
      So we'd lose a neo-Nazi enrichment factory? Not seeing the problem.
• tedunangst 8y ago
  How would this fix delivery for gmail? Gmail will be the same monolith it is today.
  • arrosenberg 8y ago
    It wouldn't necessarily, but Google doesn't really provide help to customers who pay for services with their attention and data, largely because they have a substantial enough market position that they don't have to worry about losing their customer base. Breaking them up would be a remedy to the general attitude that big, concentrated companies often develop toward the average consumer.
• jonnycomputer 8y ago
  My comment didn't deserve net +19 upvotes.
  • jonnycomputer 8y ago
    It didn't deserver +24 either.