The world needs more search engines
How do you design regulation that holds the giants accountable, doesn&#x27;t impair smaller companies&#x27; ability to enter&#x2F;innovate in the space, and isn&#x27;t quickly corruptible by the (well-resourced) companies you are trying to control?<p>We&#x27;re better served by breaking them up and enforcing and strengthening the pro-competition laws on the books. The government has a pretty mixed record with regulating industry, and a far more impressive record of investigation, enforcement, and prosecution - corporate break-ups are far more in the wheelhouse. Regulation requires constant vigilance, whereas a breakup is self-executing once the case is won.<p>It&#x27;s not anti-success rhetoric, so much as an acknowledgement that tech has become increasingly concentrated and anti-democratic. The Sherman Act was passed in 1890 - these aren&#x27;t &quot;knee jerk&quot; solutions - they&#x27;ve worked effectively in the past to curb corporate abuses.