[shimman]

Honestly extremely pathetic by a trillion dollar corporation that has a massive, undemocratic, say in how technology is developed in this country.

Microsoft should be broken up into a dozen different companies and it's quite clear they violated their consent decree from the US DOJ a few decades later, so they should get punished extra hard. Maybe nationalize Excel putting it in the public domain for starters.

[dyauspitr]

Yeah break up all the big companies so Chinese state sponsored behemoths can take over everything. This isn’t the 90s where Americans only competed with other Americans.

[pocksuppet]

China is competing so well because it has a central bureaucracy that issues 5 year plans and issues money to get them done. Do you think America should do that too, or do you think America and China are different countries with different values?

[pitched]

Let’s not forget how much US tech came from government programs like ARPA/DARPA. It isn’t exactly a decentralized bureaucracy. Just hasn’t been hitting as well recently.

[henry2023]

Breaking up big tech would make US markets more competitive, not less.

[alehlopeh]

GP didn’t say all the big tech companies. Just Microslop.

[scuff3d]

So you're saying the market is weaker with more competition?

[starfallg]

Nope, just break up the one that has been consistently found to be abusing their market position. Microsoft has been embroiled in this since the 90s.

[Waterluvian]

Honestly not sure I find that prospect worse than the American status quo. At least the Chinese regime is a rational actor.

[jimmaswell]

"America is just as bad as China" is not cute or clever; it's trite and objectively wrong. There really is no intellectually honest argument to the contrary. For starters we don't get arrested for saying "Kent State Massacre" - can't say as much for "Tiananmen Square" in China. No matter how atrocious our government may be at times, it doesn't hold a candle to them.