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>>reacto+(OP)
It's time to break Google up. They're the AT&T and Standard Oil of our generation. Make Ads, YouTube, Search, Cloud, Chrome, etc. all independent companies. Demand that antitrust regulators do their damn jobs for a change.

>>kibwen+Kj
counterargument: let's say the us gets in a real war with china, a massive conglomerate like google would probably make massive contributions to cyber/technological warfare that the individual pieces would have a hard time doing

i agree they should be broken up, but it might be the wrong time for it.

>>staina+2X
Google can intercept nuclear ICBMs? Because if they can't, nothing they do would really matter in a real war against China.

(And saying that actually "it would probably not escalate that far in a real war because... It just won't! " might be a common argument these days amongst war mongering lunatics to make war with China or Russia sound less batshit insane, but it's not an actual argument. It's just run of the mill "this time it's different!" cope that has been said before every blood bath. )