Monopoly breakups are coming and it could not happen soon enough. Google is a front for the government surveillance state and grew big on government grants so they need a beatdown by patriots anyway.
The Sherman Antitrust Act has specific criteria under which you can charge monopoly practices. Google comes close, but neither has the required market share. Also, they tried to go after IBM on the same grounds and spent millions of taxpayer dollars and, after decades in the courts, they finally gave up. You’d have the same food fight here. I don’t like Google for its filtering of the search engine topics, but I don’t like wasting money, either. I just choose to use an alternative search engine.
The founders of Facebook and Google build their own companies and provided products that were, for whatever reason, superior to their competitors.
Moreover, neither is a monopoly as there are other search engines and other social media sites.
And, the American people have decided that they do not want a government that picks winner and losers in corporate America.
By the time such an action got to the point of a final decision in the courts, market forces would remove the monopoly condition.
Happened with IBM, and Microsoft.
No, misusing the laws to punish your ideological opponents is a leftist tactic.
I have never had a FB account and refuse to go to it. I also deleted Google (having searched relentlessly on my computer for anything “Chrome”) from it.
These two are like inviting cancer into your body.
Yes. If there was ever a reason for anti-trust breakups and there was, tech giants should be broken up. Yes.
I do not use Google or Facebook for these very reasons. I wish the market would take care of this. I prefer the govt to not get involved.
Use the progressives’ 1wn weapons against them! That’s the ticket!
The problem is not Facebook and Google.
The problem is that the goal of almost every major news organization in the world is to advance the Left Wing agenda.
And another problem is that, world wide, Conservatives are a small political minority almost everywhere, and no amount of favorable or fair news coverage is going to change that.
The USA is the best evidence for that assertion.
Our citizens have unfettered access to the best Conservative news coverage and the best Conservative news analysis in the world.
But 80% of new immigrant citizens vote for the Democratic Party!
“Antitrust Should Be Used To Break Up Partisan Tech Giants Like Facebook, Google”
yeah, good luck with that.
Since each offers only a single, uniform, integrated national service, how would you “break” them up? For FB, limit the number of total posts per day? Limit new signups? For google, limit the total number of searches per day? Limit the the number of websites they can index?
Why think so small? Go after the real problem - which is an 1850 “tech giant,” the Associated Press. The AP is a virtual meeting of all major newspapers. And as Adam Smith put it,People 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 NationsUnder the homogenizing influence of the AP, journalists think that because they are unified they have the ability, as they always had the desire, to control the government of the US. If you think you control something, you want that thing to be powerful. Thus the phenomenon of a journalism which is cynical about society and naive about government power.The AP was found to be in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act back in 1945. Two generations later, we have Wikileaks documentation of the fact that Journalism as a whole - pretty much coextensive with the AP - is joined at the hip with the Democrat Party. And we have the fact that technology has obsoleted the justifiable mission of the AP, which was to economize on scarce, expensive bandwidth in the nationwide transmission of the news. Every Tom, Dick, and Harriet can afford an Internet connection which provides as much bandwidth, I venture, as the entire AP used in 1945.