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What about a BlackRock break-up
They get around it I think because they never seem to buy more than 45% shares... just they literally own a percentage of damn near every company
Wake me up when (if) something ever actually happens.
- Aetna CVS Caremark
- Cigna Express Scripts
- fucking ticketmaster
- Kroger (and they want to merge AGAIN?)
Let's start here for now
This is why I'm excited to vote for a democrat. Does anyone think Trump wants to pursue all these cases? Nah. First thing he'll shut down is everything that might save us a dollar.
Doubt they're going to rehire Barr after he refused to fuck around with the elections, but good point.
TM is low on my list. Healthcare, Amazon, Google as top priorities.
Amazon
I'll be ecstatic if that happens, but I won't hold my breath. It should have been done a long time ago for so many mega corpos, but here we are.
Good. But let's not pretend they won't merge back like what the Baby Bells did back in the early aughts.
Isn't this not possible considering that the U.S Supreme Court threw out the Chevron Doctrine?
It's the courts themselves that would have to break them up, so it's not an issue there. It's just a very high bar to clear because the courts don't care about anticompetitive practices unless it has a detrimental effect on the consumer. You'd be hard pressed to argue that things like YouTube and Gmail coupled with the cloud service, the ad service and the phone service are causing actual harm to the consumer that competition wouldn't. I don't see how YouTube would survive in its current form if it used third party ads, hosting, and CDN, the same way prime video and twitch are very dependent on Amazon Web services. Back in the day, for example, interurban electric trolleys were often owned by power companies. They used the power company's right of way for the electric lines for the tracks too and of course their power. That's anticompetitive, but frankly good for the consumer. That said, I wouldn't be sad to see it burn in a fire either.
Shit or get off the pot.
If they ruin Google Fiber I will personally de-bone every one of those motherfuckers.
Municipal fiber is better. Internet should be a human right anyways
Didn't Google already break up? It's called Alphabet now.
You do know you're not obligated to say the most retarded shit you can think of at all times, right?
Dumbass do you realize that in 2015 they completely restructured Google specifically to avoid claims of antitrust?
What happened illegally between 2015 and now that thwarted Google's plan?
They restructured so the split would be easier IF it came.
Apple and Amazon next please.
Personally I would prefer they break up all the companies that produce, distribute, and sell our food.
And Microsoft for monopoly reasons.
Add AT&T, Time-Warner, and all of the other ISPs that own streaming platforms for anticompetitive reasons.
Uhh, do Disney!
ATT just sold all ownership of DTV. They could smell the sharks.
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Frankly, Sinclair Broadcast Group needs to be shattered most urgently.
It was total BS when the limit on local broadcast ownership was released. The average consumer pays $5 per local channel on streaming and cable now. It's a damn broadcast station, it's free OTA.
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DoJ is edging y'all too hard here
I will believe it when I see it
They have the concept of a antitrust breakup.
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Do EVERY other industry next.
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