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break every company up! Each "bet" in Alphabet needs to be broken. Each business unit within Google needs to be broken. Same with Apple. Break that up to betw

break every company up! Each "bet" in Alphabet needs to be broken. Each business unit within Google needs to be broken. Same with Apple. Break that up to between services and hardware. Force them to open up their new silicon. Why can't other companies use the H1 or H2 chips for their headphones? why are we letting Apple have the competitive advantage? Open up the App Store and force new payment methods. Microsoft also needs to be broken up. force them to sell their OpenAI stake and separate Office, Windows, Azure and Xbox. Once we're done with that we need to break up Adobe (artistic tools and stock assets need to be separate), Uber (Eats and Driving again need be separate) and others as well. moving away from tech, we need to break up these luxury conglomerates to spur more innovation in the fashion industry as well. same for food conglomerates such as Nestle and consumer goods like Unilever. we've only begun the Great Breaking. and while we're at it, we need to put a end to the madness of corporate greed and institute strict profit limits and tax the rest. when you really use your big brain - you'll realize nothing is more anti-competitive than excessive profits! money is power and profit is money, and no company need have power similar to the government. those profits are ultimately what are used to acquire more companies and begin their treacherous anti-competitive practices. break the companies up and lock up the execs for being complicit in literal criminal activity. you show me a BigCo with profit and I'll show you criminal activity.

aurareturn 3y ago
Break them up. Give them to the poor. /sarcasm
pb7 3y ago
Imprison everyone while we're at it! No freedoms for anyone!
jefftk 3y ago
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic, fyi
- nologic01 3y ago
  its obviously sarcastic. some people have "forgotten" what healthy competition and competent regulation of markets means.
  - tristan957 3y ago
    Any companies that aren't Apple or Microsoft that compete with Google do not have healthy competition at all. What are you talking about? Google uses www.google.com, the most popular website in the world, to push Chrome. Chrome, the most popular browser in the world, uses www.google.com as the default search engine. Google controls the largest ad marketplace and analytics tool, so they use Chrome to harm the ad landscape to stifle ad-tech competitors (third party cookies) and completely hinder the development of ad blocking software (FLoC and web bundles). Google uses Android, the most popular mobile operating system in the world, to push Google services and has Chrome as the default browser. Anti-trust regulation must step in when a company uses its market dominance in one area to gain an advantage in another. Here, we have an entire feedback loop. We haven't had competent regulation of markets since the early 1900s. Google needs to divest Doubleclick and Chrome. This is completely untenable.
    - jefftk 3y ago
      > use Chrome to harm the ad landscape to stifle ad-tech competitors (third party cookies) As in, Chrome is removing third-party cookie support to hurt their ad-tech competitors? How do you square this with Safari kicking off third-party cookie removal, Firefox following close behind, and Chrome being last? > completely hinder the development of ad blocking software (FLoC and web bundles) Neither FLoC nor web bundles impact ad blockers, though? Both can trivially be blocked, and don't introduce new capabilities that strengthen ad blocking circumvention relative to ad blocking. (With FLoC I'm not sure what you mean here, since this isn't an argument I've seen before. With web bundles I was the main person pushing this in Google Ads before I left a year ago, and while adblocker-circumvention is something Brave claimed it never made much sense: https://www.jefftk.com/p/webbundles-and-url-randomization https://www.jefftk.com/p/webbundles-and-url-randomization).
      - 3y ago
bbor 3y ago
I.. I know you’re joking but I love 90% of that. I need a hacker news alternative for people like me. Or perhaps just people that look at the state of the world and think maybe, just maybe, something’s rotten in the states of Delaware and Ireland…
- pie420 3y ago
  I hope reddit dies and we get a great migration to new smaller forums all over the internet. We need to stop consolidating the internet.
gniv 3y ago
The funny thing is that breaking up these giants would create more corporations, hence more highly-compensated execs, and also more value for the equity investors (this is less intuitive, but I think that's what typically happens).

aurareturn 3y ago

Break them up. Give them to the poor. /sarcasm

pb7 3y ago

Imprison everyone while we're at it! No freedoms for anyone!

jefftk 3y ago

I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic, fyi

nologic01 3y ago
its obviously sarcastic. some people have "forgotten" what healthy competition and competent regulation of markets means.
- tristan957 3y ago
  Any companies that aren't Apple or Microsoft that compete with Google do not have healthy competition at all. What are you talking about? Google uses www.google.com, the most popular website in the world, to push Chrome. Chrome, the most popular browser in the world, uses www.google.com as the default search engine. Google controls the largest ad marketplace and analytics tool, so they use Chrome to harm the ad landscape to stifle ad-tech competitors (third party cookies) and completely hinder the development of ad blocking software (FLoC and web bundles). Google uses Android, the most popular mobile operating system in the world, to push Google services and has Chrome as the default browser. Anti-trust regulation must step in when a company uses its market dominance in one area to gain an advantage in another. Here, we have an entire feedback loop. We haven't had competent regulation of markets since the early 1900s. Google needs to divest Doubleclick and Chrome. This is completely untenable.
  - jefftk 3y ago
    > use Chrome to harm the ad landscape to stifle ad-tech competitors (third party cookies) As in, Chrome is removing third-party cookie support to hurt their ad-tech competitors? How do you square this with Safari kicking off third-party cookie removal, Firefox following close behind, and Chrome being last? > completely hinder the development of ad blocking software (FLoC and web bundles) Neither FLoC nor web bundles impact ad blockers, though? Both can trivially be blocked, and don't introduce new capabilities that strengthen ad blocking circumvention relative to ad blocking. (With FLoC I'm not sure what you mean here, since this isn't an argument I've seen before. With web bundles I was the main person pushing this in Google Ads before I left a year ago, and while adblocker-circumvention is something Brave claimed it never made much sense: https://www.jefftk.com/p/webbundles-and-url-randomization https://www.jefftk.com/p/webbundles-and-url-randomization).
    - 3y ago

bbor 3y ago

I.. I know you’re joking but I love 90% of that. I need a hacker news alternative for people like me. Or perhaps just people that look at the state of the world and think maybe, just maybe, something’s rotten in the states of Delaware and Ireland…

pie420 3y ago
I hope reddit dies and we get a great migration to new smaller forums all over the internet. We need to stop consolidating the internet.

gniv 3y ago

The funny thing is that breaking up these giants would create more corporations, hence more highly-compensated execs, and also more value for the equity investors (this is less intuitive, but I think that's what typically happens).