Conservatives need to understand:
A. Adam Smith offered a view of free enterprise Capitalism, but he was no fan of monopolies, not even pseudo monopolies - he understood they stand to get rid of, not facilitate, competition and that competition is required for free enterprise capitalism to REMAIN healthy, including the rule-of-law health that underpins it.
B. Antitrust can be used positively, and I believe it has been in some instances (break up of big oil, and break up of Ma Bell for instance).
I am not yet sure of the Antitrust parameters I’d apply to the tech giants, but I think it should be explored and that doing so is not disrespectful to free market capitalism as Adam Smith would suggest if he were around today.
I don’t understand why we wouldn’t break up the tech Giant’s now that they have become top to bottom Market dominators. The Menace of their Monopoly is far more dangerous than AT&T or Standard Oil ever was.
The fact that they are anti-American and Hate Everything the founders stood for just makes it a work of pleasure instead of necessity.