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Instead of more rules and bigger penalties on the books, what if the ad company and the phone company were separated? Then other phone companies could work with
by junofan 4y ago
Instead of more rules and bigger penalties on the books, what if the ad company and the phone company were separated? Then other phone companies could work with the ad company, while other ad companies could work with the phone company.
Consumers would have more choice. I don’t believe one big entity selling phones and ads carefully regulated by government officials will lead to desirable outcomes in the long term.
- shadowgovt 4y agoThe Australian government lacks the authority to do that without putting a level of onerous restraint on trade on a foreign company that could get them in trouble with the WTO. The United States government could, hypothetically, pass laws that recognize Google's gestalt of overlapping businesses as a new kind of monopoly and break it up. If you're American, there are some candidates interested in this and they aren't too hard to find.