'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus
If the Democrats win the election this year, I think Google and Facebook both stand serious chances of looking at antitrust cases.<p>Google is in the most dire situation. They own search, own the browser and phone walled gardens that bring you there, own all the ads, knee-kick ad blocking attempts, have started taking over content (AMP), have a surveillance panopticon, control standards and neuter challenges to them (HTML5 is less semantic than XHTML), have surveillance devices in the home, embrace-extend-extinguish entire product spaces, kill products people rely on, don't offer support ...<p>Google has its hands in too many pies, actively hurts other industries, and they're creepy af.<p>Facebook might have less of a case against it, but they routinely flaunt Democratic lawmakers, shape public opinion in bad ways, and buy out the competition. Not a strong case, but I think it would be argued from a social good perspective.<p>Apple and Microsoft seem safe. I have no idea about Amazon, since they have competition in all their markets.