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Re:Break Up Google by aliante on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:06AM (#23675138)
> the unelected Page and Brin having all that power with no recourse for the market

The effective market when it comes to voting shares consists of hedge fund managers like Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman.

Nobody else is organized enough to beat the activist investors and they do all sorts of terrible things with that kind of power.

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Re:Break Up Google by peteretep on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:12AM (#23675183)
> Nobody else is organized enough to beat the activist investors

I mean, except each other, and I think I'm OK with that? I'm not saying this is a whole solution, but making Zuck and co accountable to investors is an _excellent_ start. We got the Magna Carta as a result of rich people competing with other rich people.

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