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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by username90 on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:21PM (#27638481)
EU doesn't tend to break up big companies though, just regulate and negotiate with them.
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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by dundarious on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:25PM (#27654958)
The point is that EU regulations may prevent the creation of monopolies in the first place, so EU countries are unlikely to be a source of alternative monopolies to the existing US ones. So there's cause to think it unlikely that we'd be trading a "devil we know" that is at least partly accountable to US institutions, for a "devil we don't" that is less/not accountable.
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