When these topics reach the mainstream breaking point, I swear things invariably end up going the wrong way. Look at the current movement to "break up Google" i

When these topics reach the mainstream breaking point, I swear things invariably end up going the wrong way. Look at the current movement to "break up Google" into independent verticals that will still each have their own network effects. Effective anti-trust would be focusing on separating the markets for hosted services from that for client software, by forcing their debundling with open APIs and whatnot. I think it has to do with the difference between top-down and bottom-up perspective. Top-down politicians/regulators/courts/whatnot end up looking at these things of how they can be contained and controlled (regardless of how they will continue wielding the leverage that allows them to dominate their specific market), whereas bottom up we look at what it would actually take to actually create some competition (despite such attempts inherently looking like baby steps at the start).