They are enemies of the American people and do not deserve any protection from our government.
And, yes, they are a monopoly by definition of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Agreed. We need to break ‘em up. Big companies are anti-Free Market by nature, and go running to government to protect them from competition.
Agree.
Several of them have a stranglehold and they use it to push leftist politics.
I switched to DuckDuckGo.
Amusing that the Wall Street Journal is pushing the EU view. I’d think the pressure would be to impose countervailing penalties amounting to $5b on EU firms.
Agree.
I’m no fan of Google, but what if they just say NO!
Of course not. Google has the best politicians money can buy.
That happens a lot in the 3rd World EU,
Agreed.
For those who don’t realize it, they have a disproportionate monopoly in:
* online ads, more than 80%
* online search content, a plurality, due to Google books, YouTube and their own databases like Google Maps
* search engines, just a majority share of traffic
They’ve also engaged in anti-competitive practices. For example, where are Twitter’s rivals? Gab.ai can’t get its app in the Google app store because Google says “you’re hate speech” ... translation, you don’t censor people like we do so we won’t let you in. The dirty little secret is that Google has a special data mining relationship with Twitter. They’re shutting out Twitter’s rivals from search results and the app store because it wants to privilege the business it already has tight ties with.