How to Tame Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

There hasn’t been a concerted effort to stop the runaway tech giants—yet. Would today’s laws even be up to the challenge?
Illustration: Kurt Woerpel for Bloomberg

It’s harder to fix a problem than to identify it. That goes quadruple for Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc., and Facebook Inc.

On the upside, these U.S. tech giants provide some of the world’s best-loved products and services. Investors love them, too. They’re the first-, second-, fourth-, and fifth-most-valuable companies. (Microsoft Corp. places third.)