I actually tend to agree with him about Google, and large media companies in general. Too much potential to control the flow of information that is necessary to a free and open society.
Whatever you say about Google WRT that goes tenfold for the “conspiracy against the public” (Adam Smith’s description) known as the Associated Press. Of course Adam Smith, writing in 1776, had no experience of the AP, formed 3/4 of a century later. ButPeople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nationscould hardly be a more prescient warning about the “virtual meeting” of all major journalists which is the AP newswire. A meeting not “for merriment or diversion,” but exactly about the business of journalism, and which does not end with "a conspiracy against the public" only because it does not end.
Then there is Comcast. It must not be broken up, comcast must be destroyed