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What would be the goal of this Antitrust? Search seems to be the major theme, how do you break up search? Even if you break up search from Android, the ads reve
by vthallam 6y ago
What would be the goal of this Antitrust? Search seems to be the major theme, how do you break up search? Even if you break up search from Android, the ads revenue from Search is enough to pay another alphabet company(Android) to make Google search default.
Even if you give options to users, 90% of them won't care.
- pfortuny 6y agoNot that I am pro-nationalization, but if a service can only be truly supported by one actor, it would be better to have it be supported as a publicly owned company or a non-profit foundation. If this happens to worsen the product, then maybe an opportunity arises for competition... Just a non-thought out idea, but the problem with private monopolies is that they are usually unaccountable and irresponsible.
- sm0ss117 6y agoYea, if something is a Natural monopoly, which search almost certainly is, then it should be a publicly owned utility.
- Nasrudith 6y agoNo search isn't a Natural Monopoly. There isn't some sole magical search spring that Google taps into or a need to dig search lines beneath everybody's houses like a utility. "It is very useful" does not make something a utility - having exclusivity to a commons is what makes it so. There is nothing exclusive about search - Firefox and many other browsers allow you to choose between multiple search engines at any time without setting a permanent default.
- SpaceL10n 6y agoIf we can't get the internet to be classified as a utility, we certainly won't get search to be classified as a utility. Even though, imo, both should be. They are central to everyone's lives. That's a utility.