{"id":82882,"date":"2018-09-22T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/how-to-break-up-facebook-google-and-other-tech-giants"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:22:22","slug":"how-to-break-up-facebook-google-and-other-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/how-to-break-up-facebook-google-and-other-tech-giants","title":{"rendered":"How to break up Facebook, Google, and other tech giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-break-up-facebook-google-and-other-tech-giants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antitrust crusaders have built up serious momentum in Washington, but so far, it\u2019s all been theory and talk. Groups like Open Markets have made a strong case that big companies (especially big tech companies) are distorting the market to drive out competitors. We need a new standard for monopolies, they argue, one that focuses less on consumer harm and more on the skewed incentives produced by a company the size of Facebook or Google.<\/p>\n<p>Someday soon, those ideas will be put to the test, probably against one of a handful of companies. For anti-monopolists, it\u2019s a chance to reshape tech into something more democratic and less destructive. It\u2019s just a question of which company makes the best target.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, here\u2019s the case against four of the movement\u2019s biggest targets, and what they might look like if they came out on the losing end. (Note: Apple was too much of a conventional retailer to make the list, but if you\u2019re wondering what an antitrust lawsuit against Cupertino might look like, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/6\/20\/17479480\/supreme-court-apple-vs-pepper-antitrust-lawsuit-standing-explainer\">this is a pretty good place to start<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/9\/5\/17805162\/monopoly-antitrust-regulation-google-amazon-uber-facebook\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/9\/5\/17805162\/monopoly-antitrus...r-facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antitrust crusaders have built up serious momentum in Washington, but so far, it\u2019s all been theory and talk. Groups like Open Markets have made a strong case that big companies (especially big tech companies) are distorting the market to drive out competitors. We need a new standard for monopolies, they argue, one that focuses less [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83043,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82882\/revisions\/83043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}