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Is there anyone who would seriously disagree?
by stefan_ 3y ago
Is there anyone who would seriously disagree?
- activiation 3y agoShareholders perhaps...
- senttoschool 3y agoI disagree. I think this sets a bad precedence. Who's next? Apple? Microsoft? There needs to be some formal process in which countries can vote/object to these things. Breaking up Google has ramifications for the entire world. Europe should not abuse this sort of power. I don't see Europe breaking up Luxottica, LVHM, De Beers Group.
- hfkwer 3y agoGoogle can just break off its advertising branch in the EU and keep it integrated with the main company in the rest of the world.
- RobotToaster 3y ago>Who's next? Apple? Please.
- izacus 3y ago> I disagree. I think this sets a bad precedence. Who's next? Apple? Yes please. If we want healthy competitive markets, we need smaller companies that actually _COMPETE_ and their products can be mixed and matched so the customers vote with their wallets and not CEOs with their lobbying checks.
- sensanaty 3y ago> Who's next? Apple? Microsoft? I genuinely can't tell if this is a shitpost or not, because yes absolutely we should target Apple and M$ as well.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoEmployees, shareholders, lobbyists, "researchers" who write academic "studies" favoring the company for money, nonprofit orgs which are principally funded by donations in exchange for political support, politicians whose kids work for big tech companies. (Only reason the US didn't pass regulation against tech recently is likely that Chuck Schumer's kids work for big tech and he just... never put the vote on the schedule...) The only reason Google has survived today while operating as pretty much a criminal enterprise is because they spread a massive amount of money to the pockets of influential people.