There’s only one regulation of Big Tech that has no downside for the rest of us: Break up these companies, and require interoperability, to create the conditions that make genuine competition possible.
There’s only one regulation of Big Tech that has no downside for the rest of us: Break up these companies, and require interoperability, to create the conditions that make genuine competition possible.
There are other parts of the “tech” world I’d apply similar principles to, but they are not search and email which have somewhat different problems. I see no reason not to address these things one at a time.
Some problems are better addressed by the “break them up” part of the proposal we started with, which though it might be less efficacious given the extreme concentration of market power we’re starting with seems also even less likely to involve “downsides for the rest of us.”