[bilekas]

> -and that it's legally allowed to do so--is the best reason I've seen so far to break up Big Tech.

Of course it is legal.. Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to.. But you want to break it up and what then exactly.. ?

> Both Android and Chrome need to be spun out--at this point they are basically public utilities

No, they're not.. And they're not a fundamental right either.

[jessaustin]

Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to.

Lots of court cases have forced merchants to sell to minorities to whom they would rather have not sold.

[bilekas]

Could you share on some references to products and not services forced to be sold ?

Also policy based and not discriminatory based..

[techntoke]

Chromium is already open source.

[bilekas]

Technically so is Android but thats a whole other can of worms..

[anoncake]

> Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to..

Of course the state can do that.

[mrkstu]

Turkey can if Google wants to do business in Turkey- if it isn't a legal business entity in Turkey, then no, not really.

[sercand]

Google has a legal business entity in Turkey.

[mrkstu]

For now- but if Turkey gets snippy back w/Google and tries to force the issue, that entity will simply cease to exist.