Ben Thompson explicitly states that he is not talking about all Internet companies, and that is one of his beefs with Tim Wu's critique—that it is reducing his

Ben Thompson explicitly states that he is not talking about all Internet companies, and that is one of his beefs with Tim Wu's critique—that it is reducing his actual argument to a caricature. To your point, yes I agree that this hinges on the specifics of Google's business. If, for example, their advertising business was made illegal in its current form it would completely change the economics.