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The US should use the current market decline to split up Google. Splitting it up would allow for more competition and overall improve the tech sector.

Ideally you'd see the government force a split up Youtube, Cloud, Search, and their Ad Exchange into separate companies.



> Ideally you'd see the government force a split up Youtube, Cloud, Search, and their Ad Exchange into separate companies.

Google will argue that keeping these services in one company gives free access to consumers. How can the US govt prove that it harms consumers?


I'd much prefer the standard of "harms competition" except in cases of natural monopoly.


I would rather like to see Google stripped from for-profit status. How Google earns its money does not really allow decoupling Search from Ads.


If the US government does this, you can be pretty sure it'll keep taking copies of all email in the split-up Google as well.


As if they arent doing this allready




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