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Should the government break up Amazon, Facebook and Google?

In 2019 the European Union and U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren issued proposals that would regulate Facebook, Google and Amazon. Senator Warren proposed that the U.S. government should designate tech companies who have global revenue of over $25 billion as “platform utilities" and break them up into smaller companies. Senator Warren argues that the companies have “bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.” Lawmakers in the European Union proposed a set of rules which incl…  

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 @9MDD3XT from Texas  answered…1yr1Y

Probably. There should certainly be taxing and fees leveled that aren’t being because these companies keep swallowing up smaller companies and it becomes more and more difficult to launch a successful business without it being eaten by bigger fish.

 @9FGP9Q5 from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

No, these services serve the common good and should be nationalized.

 @9FGMQK3  from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

The government should investigate the anticompetitive behavior of Silicon Valley and penalize it appropriately.

 @9BNBR48Independent from Texas  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but the government made these companies, why would they break them up?

 @95RCTVN from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

If they are all a monopoly

 @92BD5SZProgressive from Texas  answered…3yrs3Y

The government should open anti-trust investigations into these companies.

 @8TJS4K3 from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but the government should buy stock in them to peacefully and slowly seize the means of production.

 @8T9JH4TRepublican from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, these companies have grown too powerful and are currently legislating while not being elected.

 @8Q5C4GT from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

Maybe just Facebook

 @8FFY9ZQ from Texas  answered…5yrs5Y

I think they should icentivize them to treat employees much better

 @8DJDSF8Green from Texas  answered…5yrs5Y

No, but corporations should have little to none political saying.

 @8QWCL7Q from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but they should limit their abilities to limit free speak (i.e. censorship of specific people due to political standings)

 @8DWCSSF from Texas  answered…5yrs5Y

Yes, but more importantly dissolve IP rights

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