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bdcravens 8 months ago

Large companies, even monopolies, aren't the problem. Unfair leverage to suppress competition is. Those products without the subsidizing revenue of ads, and ads without the information flows of those products, is the goal.

Who gets what part of the company is the wrong question to ask. The org chart would get split along those business units. In all likelihood, the company called "Google" would be the software side, since that's where search lives.

lanstin 8 months ago | parent [-]

They are a problem in terms of an efficient free market; they make the information flow asymmetrically biased in their favor, and cause higher prices and implicit collusion. That is true even without any intent to harm.

bdcravens 8 months ago | parent [-]

Sure, but generally speaking that's an orthogonal to the issue of antitrust. The same could be same of many of the typical "big tech" players, or even some of the YC "winners".