Neat!
Do Amazon and Facebook too.
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Lets call back to classics and do it to AT&T again, too.
There should just be a law that just periodically breaks up AT&T every few years.
There should just be a law that just periodically breaks up ~~AT&T~~ all companies every few years.
Given capitalisms inevitable march towards monopoly, this would just be good business.
Why not every large company, just for good measure?
Make more than x, or pay your CEO more than y% more than the rest of the employees? Instant breakup!
Society might actually be good!
AT&T De-reunion Tour
AT&T classic or new AT&T (Verizon, sprint/t-mobile)?
Yes.
Fuck it, break up Cincinnati Bell and the other remaining baby bells while we’re at it just for fun
And then everything too big to fail! Too big to fail = too big.
It's not like the knowledgeable people, or systems/infrastructure all disappear if a business fails. Business is basically a bunch instructions for people moving a bunch of shit around for money. Literally nothing about it is so unique it cannot be reproduced.
And then also Physically split up Elon, billionaires need to learn how to exist in a society of laws and consequences instead of above it.
Physically split up Elon
Draw and quarter the rich
Also break up ISPs. I have the local monopoly and 4 red herrings providers allowed to operate to give the illusion of competition.
And force fiber installation. I have plenty of fiber in my area... it just stops at the boundary of every apartment complex.
Oh my gosh.
My town advertised fiber rollout with a completion by the end of 2023.
I asked about any projects for my street because it's no longer 2023 and the clerks couldn't find any road permits for running it through the conduit
I live in a community of rental homes.
My area would get reasonable fiber coverage by the time we figure out how to stream cat videos over entangled particles to a phone.
Nationalize ISPs. Internet access is a utility, no one should be profiting off of it.
How about we nationalize all three instead, start operating them for the public good?
^^^I ^^^know ^^^this ^^^dream ^^^is ^^^impossible
I have no doubt ~~Alphabet~~ Google would try to delay any breakup as long as physically possible, but this would be a huge win against big tech if it went ahead. It'd probably be quite the win for public privacy as well, as it'd decouple these widely used platforms from Google.
Google has enough money to buy scotus though.
Break them away from Y O U T U B E
People aren't going to like this comment, but YouTube is pretty much guaranteed to get worse if it's spun out as an independent company. The main reason it can survive is because of Google's money. Video streaming at YouTube's scale is extremely expensive and there's only a few companies that could really afford to do it.
Take chromium from them . That solves a few issues.
Ah hell you're right. Nothing would survive with the scope that YouTube has
5 years from now, things will go full circle and YouTube will be Channel 487 on Comcast cable as "YT" but it will be a documentary channel on how to cane rocking chairs.
Do it! Do it motherfuckers, we dare ya!
I know very little about the operating structure of Google, but I wonder how this would work functionally. Doesn't most of their revenue come from ads? So like you couldn't have google search's ad business help to prop up the lines of business that don't make money (Youtube, chrome development)
I'm not anti-breakup but I just wonder if this would imperil some of their lines of business. Like would Youtube shove even more ads down your throat post-breakup?
A great question, Id never considered that previously.
My instant gut feeling would be that they would all just continue selling adds, but as separate entities?
Also how does breaking up google work when the current structure is that Alphabet is the primary company now?
I took “breaking up Google” to mean the Alphabet suite of companies; I had presumed “Google” was just shorthand for “Alphabet”. But I might be wrong
You're most likely right, they recognize the headline saying "DOJ considering breaking up Alphabet" would be meaningless to most people.
Correct. They'd just sell ads the same way other services sell 3rd party ads through Google (or rarely, other services. Doubleclick was a big one before, you know, Google bought them)
Good
Now do the same with Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Comcast, Disney, all the current major Hollywood film studios, all the major internet providers, major airlines, and we're going in the right direction of a start.
Why not shoot for the moon with only 3 months left?
They already tried to subvert this with alphabet are They going to work in the numbers next?
Only considering*? :/