Breaking Up Big Tech Is a Messy Proposition
A collection of commentary examining antitrust laws, how tech companies conduct business and how both are shaping markets.
In whose hands?
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One thing just about all of us can’t argue with is the rise of Big Tech and its dominance of, well, everything: how we interact with each other, how we buy our goods, how and what we consume. It’s now changing the conversation on antitrust laws. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed Facebook Inc. a win — at least a temporary one — when it dismissed two monopoly lawsuits filed by the federal government. But it doesn't take the heat off Facebook and other tech behemoths like Amazon.com Inc. and Google that are facing increasing scrutiny over their business practices, their influence and even the threat they pose to authoritarian regimes around the world.
Classic theories of antitrust may no longer apply to a society few could have envisioned a century ago. Bloomberg Opinion columnists have been examining the new trends in regulations and antitrust thinking, how they could shape the legal system, and what — or who — we we want to protect.