[konschubert]

Another (simple, easy, maybe wrong) answer might be to simply not regulate what companies do with their platforms, but limit their size.

Let them do as they please, but prevent acquisitions once they reach a certain dominance, and break them up once they exceed another level of dominance.

Of course breaking up a company is also a very messy, complicated and damaging process.

But companies would probably pre-empt a breakup by spinning of parts of their business and it may be still less harmful than the DoJ reviewing Gmail's roadmap, as Ben puts it.

If Google spun Youtube, Amazon spun AWS, Facebook spun Whatsapp and Apple spun Services, we would already be in a much healthier market without too much heavy damage.

[andromeduck]

These kind of artificial barriers are whats behind our broken healthcare system.

[swyx]

stated with so much confidence about a technological landscape that none of us has ever seen before. beware of "do this one thing and the world would be so much better" thinking. it's got the same problems as thinking you can solve everything by asking Five Why's.

[konschubert]

I wrote:

> Another (simple, easy, maybe wrong) answer

because I realize that I may be wrong.

My goal was not to advocate for a specific solution, my goal was to bring another aspect to the discussion.