What if the government breaks up both. The ad tech businesses and the telecoms.
The question is whether this type of comment "[Google/Facebook] is not the problem..." is a not-so-clever attempt to defend a FAANG company or whether it is legitimiate. I have seen this type of response many times on HN. It is like someone saying "Don't look there, look here." Of course, we can look both here and there, one step at a time.
What is a legitimate argument why breaking up Google/Facebook prevents the government from later breaking up telecoms, or solving any other problem.
Whereas if the telecoms were broken up, how does that improve the situation with the ad tech oligarchy. Even if you say "Don't look there, look here" eventually we may look "there".
The harmful effects of Google/Facebook cannot be easily overhsadowed by other problems.
The question is whether this type of comment "[Google/Facebook] is not the problem..." is a not-so-clever attempt to defend a FAANG company or whether it is legitimiate. I have seen this type of response many times on HN. It is like someone saying "Don't look there, look here." Of course, we can look both here and there, one step at a time.
What is a legitimate argument why breaking up Google/Facebook prevents the government from later breaking up telecoms, or solving any other problem.
Whereas if the telecoms were broken up, how does that improve the situation with the ad tech oligarchy. Even if you say "Don't look there, look here" eventually we may look "there". The harmful effects of Google/Facebook cannot be easily overhsadowed by other problems.