BREAK 'EM UP
Yeah, Google, Meta, Amazon, and probably others really need to get broken up and get proper antitrust treatment. I say this even as someone who holds stock (like a total of 5 shares, so not much) in a couple of those. I used to dream of working at Google as well, but that dream died quite some time ago based on their actions and culture.
I’ve recently got a description of their general climate from someone who apparently works in Google.
These companies should be broken into like 24 pieces each.
And their management of all time investigated thoroughly for anti-competitive activities.
There should a Nuremberg tribunal for corps. And open one.
Can I get six Baby Googs? And then we do Microsoft, apple, meta, and the rest?
That’s never going to happen. I’m not sure on what stipulates a monopoly in this scenario, but the fact that there’s bing, duck duck go, kagi, and a handful of others means it’s not really a monopoly which tells me there is some specific ruling here that they’ve determined is monopolistic behavior.
Edit: yeah after reading the article, wtf Google…
Because of network effects the understanding of a monopoly has to grow with changing technology.
The fundamental problem is that it wouldn’t even be desireable to split up many of the new social media and internet technologies because that would reduce the quality for everyone, increase costs to support as a business and increase environmental damage from duplicating server storage and power consumption.
What we need is to turn them into public utilities that have significant democratic input by their own workforce (the experts and enthusiasts) and the users (the billions of people who actually create the value for the thing).
This is a somewhat surprising position to see in the fediverse…
(I mean, I get what you’re saying, and I guess someone should bring that to the party, but there is s different way)
