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This is a good start but all the tech giants need to broken up. Their size alone, and their access to capital, lets them do any number of anti competitive things. The deals/partnerships they make, the acquisitions, the bundling (like Teams and Office), loss leading, reliance on network effects, patent portfolios / giant legal teams, all of it. There isn’t really a great innovation landscape when these companies can just copy your idea and go scorched earth. We also need to regulate some of their products as general public utilities. For example there is no reason YouTube, a basic video hosting platform, should have content that only Google can train AIs on. I really hope Harris and Trump double down on Lina Khan’s direction and not succumb to corporate bribery…I mean lobbying.


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