Re:Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up
by bilbo0s on Thursday November 01, 2018 @10:57AM
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>What would you break Apple up into?...
And how would breaking Apple up, help with hate messages being posted on twitter, facebook, and youtube?
Taking it a step further, I mean, what would even be the basis on which you order a breakup of Apple? It's pretty set in law from the telcos way back to the railroads that monopolies are the reason to break a company up. (At least, that's the law in the US.)
But how do you argue that a company with a minority market share in all of its product lines, is a monopoly???
People have not quite thought through all the nuts and bolts of this whole "break up tech companies" idea.
(Although, I think at this point, one could argue effectively, that Google and Facebook are monopolies. It'd just be more difficult with companies like Apple or Netflix or companies like that.)
And how would breaking Apple up, help with hate messages being posted on twitter, facebook, and youtube?
Taking it a step further, I mean, what would even be the basis on which you order a breakup of Apple? It's pretty set in law from the telcos way back to the railroads that monopolies are the reason to break a company up. (At least, that's the law in the US.)
But how do you argue that a company with a minority market share in all of its product lines, is a monopoly???
People have not quite thought through all the nuts and bolts of this whole "break up tech companies" idea.
(Although, I think at this point, one could argue effectively, that Google and Facebook are monopolies. It'd just be more difficult with companies like Apple or Netflix or companies like that.)