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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
what are Google going to do to China?

throw ads at them?

>>blibbl+IZ
Yes information on the worlds largest search engine , video repository, and browser definitely have zero value in wartime

>>djohns+dr4
Mark Roper's videos on firework construction might have had military value 1000 years ago

but I'm afraid the Chinese already know how to make them