Re:Break Up Google
by tonyedgecombe on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:58AM
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Starting with companies that make over a billion dollars a year and are in multiple markets seems like an uncontroversial place, though.
The problems don't occur when companies are in multiple markets, arguable that is better for competition and hence the person on the street. The problem is when a company or two dominates a single market.
You're correct that dominating a single market is bad, but using your dominance of a single market to bankroll taking over other markets is pretty nasty and you can't trivially do something like that if you aren't already fabulously wealthy from dominating a market.
In the case of the article, it's specifically talking about how Google is doing that.
Starting with companies that make over a billion dollars a year and are in multiple markets seems like an uncontroversial place, though.