Comment by crowcroft
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Similar to the current antitrust case with Meta. The time to have tackled these problems was probably about a decade ago.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Similar to the current antitrust case with Meta. The time to have tackled these problems was probably about a decade ago.
Totally agree. I think the only option here would be separating the company into multiple companies. This seems to be the direction the Meta case is more likely to go in.
Eg. Google could become, Google Search (and AI), YouTube, and an independent ad tech company with the remnants of DoubleClick (maybe Google Ads moves into this group as well and has deals with the other two entities).
> Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Only if you wait a few decades to break a monopoly up. This is the fall out of the lack of US government intervention in their megatech companies.
We see the EU trying to fight back, but really all of this is far too late. There will be significant fall out, I’m sure. The sale of Chrome could be an unmitigated disaster.