So, we want to break up Google because it has gotten too big. What about Luxottica? It has over 80% market share on eyewear brands. What about Pearson? It has over 60% market share on testing market? What about Paypal? It has over 80% market share on online payments. What about Aetna (merged with Humana) on health care market? List goes on..
That being said, Google gets primary access to your personal data and habits, and then also gets to sell advertising based on that data. That's certainly more unseemly than having too few choices for eyewear, don't you think?
And Google has acquired hundreds of companies in the last 20 years.
US anti-trust litigation has degraded to the point of non-existence. Microsoft faced anti-trust charges in 1998 that will puzzle most youngsters in HN today - because both Google and Apple do far-far worse. Destroying all competition via control of the market has become normalised US corporate behaviour. Why has this been allowed to occur ?
For all its faults, the EU appears to notice this when the US doesn't.
Luxottica, Pearson, Aetna - no idea. Perhaps they're having similar discussions on eywear community messageboards and healthcare messageboards where they know about such things?
Or perhaps you can write a sensible, well-reasoned article using evidence on how these companies are similar to Facebook, Google or some other tech behmoth and what the appropriate remedies are or aren't? Just a thought.
Why would people try to cancel Luxottica? Eyewear touches a much smaller market and doesn't have nearly the same potential to manipulate people as Google does (at least not yet). People will always focus all of their attention on the largest threat.
For what it's worth I do think those ones should be broken up as well, no reason to confine our attention just to popular tech companies.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/08/Anti-mono...
His second article is about breaking AWS out of Amazon, into a fictional company called A-Cloud. And he’s using Amazon’s own project planning process to do so, though I can’t tell if it’s out of habit or for the mordant irony.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/21/A-Cloud-P...
All the examples you mentioned probably have a negative impact on the market (and the public), the ones I'm familiar with definitely do.
> What about Luxottica? It has over 80% market share on eyewear brands.
I would assume optometrists and opthamologists argue about that on their own forums rather than this tech forum filled with people mostly from tech.
You can also find it in many marketing strategies of some companies. Take duckduckgo for example, I love them more than google but I'm kinda tired of 'Use us, Because Google is BAD' approach