The EU has a plan to break up Google

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7 points·robhodge··5 comments

Governments shouldn't attempt to solve technical problems. Governments should provide an equal playing field for it's citizens.

Google is operating on a level playing field. It just Google competition is not willing to take the risk to run the proverbial ball of innovation into a new uncharted territories of the search game.

Who is to say governments themselves are not monopolies that could use some form of healthy competition. I would love to replace my congress representative an incumbent of 20 years with a more efficient direct democracy app.

Of course said theoretical voting app as mention above would have to be voted in before people could use it. Think somewhere in the states recently there was a campaign to elect representative that would be informed how to vote by people who would use a twitter like system to interface with the politician. Thus adding more a scientific consensus to form with the aid of direct democracy.

>As Financial Times notes, the European parliament has no authority to force the break up of a company like Google.

Also I just want to point out that ~90% of Googles profit comes from adwords in search. So if you separate its services to different companies they'll just individually fail.

Also part of the reason search is so good, is that it can mine data from Docs, Drive, Youtube, Plus, Mail, etc.

I don't think EU understands Google's business model. But politicians not understanding tech is this decade in a nutshell.

Real article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/617568ea-71a1-11e4-9048-00144feabd... (Warning: Paywal)

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