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.
That’s not even the half of it.
They provide the OS on about 80% of the worlds phones and restrict application vendors who have access. They bundle their own search engine and email application with that OS, along with any/all their proprietary applications.
They make/sell hardware. And bundle that same OS into it with all the proprietary hooks.
They have a DOMINANT position in musical and video content with youtube. And they strictly control access to that platform too.
Their search engine sends you to what Google favors. They don’t even list what they don’t favor.
There are some broad categories that should be applied to modern tech:
1. Network/Transport
2. Hardware
3. OS
4. Applications
5. Content
6. Search
No company should be allowed to sell in more than two. The anti-trust laws should break up companies along those lines.
There is so much more.