Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook?

[DEAD7]

Political momentum for a crackdown on Silicon Valley's social media giants got a boost this week when a state attorney general said he would tell U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions next week that Google, Facebook and Twitter should be broken up. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry wants the federal government to do to the social media firms what it did to Standard Oil in 1911, according to a Louisiana newspaper report Tuesday... "This can't be fixed legislatively," Landry told the paper. "We need to go to court with an antitrust suit." He or another high official from his office will next week present the break-up proposal to Sessions... Landry, president of the National Association of Attorneys General, had spent months with his colleagues probing what they described as anti-competitive practices by Facebook, Google and Twitter, according to the paper.


Louisiana attorney general to ask Sessions to break up Google, Facebook, Twitter – Silicon Valley

 

[DakotaRed]

Not just them. Disney needs to be added too. They'll own probably every movie studio and tv station by 2025.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Need to add Amazon to this list definitely.

 

[newworldafro]

Get to big for your britches global conglomerate brehs...

 

[goatmane]

the fact Comcast or ATT, big ISPs are not mentioned in this thread are fukking ridiclous. yall are pawns



you cannot go create a fiber ISP from these fukking monopolies. and they overcharging for shytty data. we all depend on internet.

Silicon Valley small time compared to these old school criminals from the 1800s. fukk em

 

[Lord-Yosh]

the fact Comcast or ATT, big ISPs are not mentioned in this thread are fukking ridiclous. yall are pawns



you cannot go create a fiber ISP from these fukking monopolies. and they overcharging for shytty data. we all depend on internet.

Silicon Valley small time compared to these old school criminals from the 1800s. fukk em

Silicon valley refuses to play the game they're geeks and smart guys not shady business men . They're about to see what happens when you think you're the smartest person in the room and you just got there

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Nikkas crying over social media companies

 

[Black Hans]

Uh no.

Amazon? Well seeing that Amazon is singlehandedly consuming American retail, that would be understandable. But Facebook, Google, and Twitter are not breaking any antitrust laws. Why would they need to be broken up? They're not THAT dominant. Sounds like propaganda for the ISPs to get some of that revenue from those companies. Net neutrality has ended in case anyone forgot.

 

[Pressure]

Google is already a subsidiary of Alphabet...

 

[Strapped]

For what

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I've never heard a google argument for why...

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Doesn't make any sense

 

[Secure Da Bag]

the fact Comcast or ATT, big ISPs are not mentioned in this thread are fukking ridiclous.

Those are the companies that need to be broken up. They have an oilgarchy. Have prevented counties and municipalities from installing their own fiber or broadband networks/ISPs.

Pointing at Google, Facebook, Twitter, or even Amazon is just a distraction by ISPs to try to monopolize free commerce for more profit.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

the fact Comcast or ATT, big ISPs are not mentioned in this thread are fukking ridiclous. yall are pawns



you cannot go create a fiber ISP from these fukking monopolies. and they overcharging for shytty data. we all depend on internet.

Silicon Valley small time compared to these old school criminals from the 1800s. fukk em

Why not both?

Google/Facebook are not "small time." They wield more control over people's actual life decisions than the media giants do.

Uh no.

Amazon? Well seeing that Amazon is singlehandedly consuming American retail, that would be understandable. But Facebook, Google, and Twitter are not breaking any antitrust laws. Why would they need to be broken up? They're not THAT dominant. Sounds like propaganda for the ISPs to get some of that revenue from those companies. Net neutrality has ended in case anyone forgot.

73% of all digital advertising dollars in America goes to either Google or Facebook.

That's an insane number by itself, but it also demonstrates how deep their control over information is. 3/4 of advertizing dollars go to Google/Facebook because every advertizer knows that Google/Facebook have that kind of control over people's eyes.

 

[Pressure]

Why not both?

Google/Facebook are not "small time." They wield more control over people's actual life decisions than the media giants do.





73% of all digital advertising dollars in America goes to either Google or Facebook.

That's an insane number by itself, but it also demonstrates how deep their control over information is. 3/4 of advertizing dollars go to Google/Facebook because every advertizer knows that Google/Facebook have that kind of control over people's eyes.

So your argument for breaking them up is that it is unfair to advertisers?