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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+(OP)
So what you are saying is we should break up the US so they don't get in a real war with China?!

>>staina+(OP)
what are Google going to do to China?

throw ads at them?

>>staina+(OP)
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. )

>>staina+(OP)
Can you give us an example of wartime contributions that require expertise across the verticals of browser vendor, advertisement marketplace, a remote home video/audio monitoring vendor, an OS vendor, and a productivity software vendor? How does integrating those verticals help in an attack or defense scenario any better than having those separated?

>>mardif+U2
Why do you assume a war with China would inevitably escalate to a nuclear apocalypse?

It seems more likely to be fought in Taiwan conventionally then on either country’s turf.

>>blibbl+G2
Yes information on the worlds largest search engine , video repository, and browser definitely have zero value in wartime

>>djohns+bu3
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