> It's not a whim Saying stuff like "Google and Apple should be forced to fund the W3C and/or Mozilla" is absolutely a whim. This would be an absurd government

> It's not a whim Saying stuff like "Google and Apple should be forced to fund the W3C and/or Mozilla" is absolutely a whim. This would be an absurd government overreach. > They're sucking all of the air out of the environment, making it incredibly difficult to gain traction on your own. You can absolutely succeed today without Apple. Apple is a minority player in the mobile device segment. Perhaps Apple is more profitable for developers. But they are not a monopoly in this space yet and do not warrant anti-trust. > Apple wouldn't be where they are today if the US Government hadn't intervened against Microsoft and forced them to pay Apple. Microsoft, on the other hand, was a monopoly (and still is, in many ways). > Can you imagine if those industries could act however they wanted? Can you imagine what will happen if we keep giving the government more and more power to do what they want? See: Australia's government forcing encryption backdoors into every service. Giving the government more and more power over companies that don't yet even constitute a monopoly is a recipe for disaster. > Companies aren't people. And yet companies are property, private entities, etc. Just because companies aren't people doesn't mean they are toys for the government to manipulate and control in any way they want under the guise of "antitrust regulation."