> They would, because all three companies would include a cohort of the same activist employees with the same censorious ideology all pushing to cancel the same

> They would, because all three companies would include a cohort of the same activist employees with the same censorious ideology all pushing to cancel the same people at the same time. Which is collusion and we have remedies for it. It's just a better place to be all around. >Splitting tech companies won't do any good for censorship resistance on its own It really will. The power imbalance is redressed so a multitude of normal policy options become available that aren't against a monolithic standard oil. But sure, please do focus on the many other benefits of smashing _all_ entities with outsized market power into many pieces wherever such outsized market power arises. edit: 3 is because I was establishing the point and didn't want to list out 50, which is closer to the right number of competing similar sized entities we'd want. If not a thousand.