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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by rurp on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:52PM (#23433133)
Economic competition is generally a good thing. Breaking up monopolies fosters competition within a country, and competition promotes progress. Historically, companies in free societies have generally performed much better than govt granted/allowed monopolies in more centralized countries.

Sure you can get some economies of scale as a monopoly, but it comes with a lot of corruption, incompetence, and anti-competitive behavior.

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by andreilys on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:07PM (#23433324)
I agree with everything you’re saying.

I also think that a hamstrung western company will be steamrolled by international companies with significant state backing/support.

This isn’t a simple equation, there are second and third order effects that we can’t appreciate until after the fact.

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