Anti Trust Laws

Much like how anti trust laws, muckrakers, Congress, and the Supreme Court broke up the giants of the Industrial Revolution, such as Rockefeller's Standard Oil, it looks like there are new groups attempting to try the same thing to Facebook. My question is are they going to try to do this to Google (Alphabet Inc)and Apple? I suspect that they are going to be more like Disney or GE, which are two of the big corporations from that time that survived into the 21st century, because of their emphasis of the sale of finished products and entertainment, not raw information--kind of like how Standard Oil sold raw crude and finished products.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17816572/tim-wu-facebook-regulation-interview-curse-of-bigness-antitrust





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