Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco

Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by scarface_74 on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:25PM (#36822244)

And you still also haven’t come up with a reasonable way to “break up the BigTech”. If you ban the sale of apps with in game purchases that still doesn’t break up tech

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Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by CPLX on Saturday July 22, 2023 @07:09AM (#36825245)

Breaking up big tech is straightforward. You order Google to spin off the ads business, Amazon to split out AWS, Meta to split Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp into separate companies and so on.

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Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by cratermoon on Saturday July 22, 2023 @01:17PM (#36827962)

Did you know Amazon owns its own freight airline, called Amazon Air? Here's a few other things that could be split: AbeBooks, Book Depository, Goodreads, Audible; IMDb, Zappos, Twitch, Curse, Inc., Whole Foods, Ring, Egghead Software, Digital Photography Review, all the companies Amazon acquired and put into Kindle while killing off competing products, MGM studios, and a few dozen others.

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