Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech?

Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by thih9 on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:20PM (#27635775)

I wonder how the "break-up bill" would be applied in practice for specific companies.

Does that mean that e.g. Apple Music would now have to become a separate entity?

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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by snicker7 on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:49PM (#27636079)

It means that "Apple Music" cannot rely on an "online platform" (large online service) owned by Apple.

A more practical example is that Google can't run its ad-tech services in GCP. And Amazon cannot run its online store in AWS. They could, however, use each other's cloud. But not their own.

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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by ehnto on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:58PM (#27636192)

That's interesting. I would say we wouldn't have AWS if Amazon couldn't have built it by scratching it's own itch. But also, couldn't Amazon just spin up an "internal" AWS style system, instead of using a competitors cloud service?

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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by Mirioron on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#27636185)

So Google has to run a second cloud service that's only used internally?

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