Breaking up Big Tech may not be necessary (or effective)

At last week’s Web Summit in Lisbon, perhaps inevitably the topic of breaking up Big Tech companies came up onstage in a discussion dedicated to that topic. But while both speakers agreed that Big Tech is becoming too powerful, there was disagreement on whether a breakup was necessary, or would even solve the overall problem. But she considered breaking up the companies to be a last-resort solution when enforcing the rules no longer works. Today, data is power, and the asymmetrical nature of that power is terrifying,” he said. “When companies want to operate in the European market, be they American or Chinese, they have to respect our laws.

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