From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 8/23/2021 4:23 PM, Questor wrote:   
   > On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 12:49:06 -0400, Michael Trew    
   wrote:   
   >> On 8/22/2021 2:05 AM, Snidely wrote:   
   >>> On Saturday, Michael Trew wrote:   
   >> I've been reading recently that the feds are starting to crack down,   
   >> more lawsuits coming for "splitting up" big tech co's like Amazon,   
   >> Google, Apple, etc.  I hope they finally get something done.   
   >   
   > And how would that work, exactly?  I hear a lot of vague talk about breaking   
   up   
   > these big tech companies, but never any specific proposals.  I don't see any   
   > reasonable way to do it that mitigates the problems that people are   
   complaining   
   > about.  Consider Amazon.  They might be forced to divest themselves of their   
   web   
   > services (AWS) and/or their voice-controlled assistant (Echo), etc., but how   
   > does that solve the issue of their dominance in online commerce with the   
   Amazon   
   > marketplace?  How do you split up that?  Similarly with Facebook -- they can   
   > spin off Instagram et alia, but how could the main site be divided?  As with   
   > Google and their search engine.  There are reasons why these companies have   
   > become giants in their core businesses, and for most of us we can begin to   
   > understand them by looking in the mirror.   
      
   I can't say, I haven't read that much into it.  The article I'm   
   referencing was from a couple of months ago, where several states   
   attorneys general had gotten together to file a federal lawsuit,   
   antitrust, or something of the sort.   
      
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