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I agree. But I haven't seen anybody push this forward as possible policy anywhere. There's no discussion about it anywhere that I've seen.

• a_humean 7y ago
  In the US its literately already the law of the land. Its called anti-trust, and it gives broad authority to break up companies and halt acquisitions. The regulatory agencies have just narrowed the scope of their actions dramatically over 30-40 years by only looking at the easily gamble metric of short term consumer price impacts. At least one of the US presidential candidates (warren) has already proposed using these powers to break up all of the big tech firms.
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  • jplayer01 7y ago
    I'm not talking about breaking them up. Also, while anti-trust law exists, it's not enforced. And breaking the tech giants further doesn't ensure that anti-trust is enforced in any expanded sense outside of "consumer price", which is the epitome of uselessness. I don't think I've seen Warren et al. talk about making sure anti-trust is applied how it should be (would they even have the ability to do so?). Correct me if I'm wrong.