[godzillabrennus]

When the drama unfolded over the James Damore manifesto I recognized immediately what would unfold next in our cold civil war.

The folks who work at Google may have been appeased but it served as a lighting rod to gather those who oppose the culture in urban areas like Silicon Valley.

I think it's very likely we will now see an accelerated push from the Trump administration and conservatives to break up the big firms in Silicon Valley.

I hope I'm wrong.

[theWatcher37]

I'll take a stab at it.

Internet search has evolved past that of a free market entity; search is now a public utility as much as power and water.

You can't imagine a neighborhood without power and water. You can't imagine the internet without search. Google today is like the AT&T of old. When we bust it up the goal should be power-utility-like entities (bland, unbiased, purely functional entities with mostly technical oversight and immunity from liability)

[Klathmon]

We can't even get internet access regulated as a public utility in the US despite many begging for it, hell we can't even keep internet access neutral! There's no way that a tool used on the internet would become one.

[Toboe]

> There's no way that a tool used on the internet would become one.

Said tool pissed of the party that is most strongly associated with "never regulate!".

[yellowapple]

They're overdue for a bit of regulatory shaking, even amid the ironic circumstances.