Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: ***** Breaking up Google ***** I have long been opposed to government efforts to ...
***** Breaking up Google *****
I have long been opposed to government efforts to break up #Google on antitrust grounds. My general feeling about such efforts involving large tech firms is that they typically do more harm than good in the long run, and I point to AT&T as an obvious example among many.
However, the confluence of Google's "hell bent for leather" AI push, the rapid decline of Google Search, the damage Google's new AI policies are doing to websites all over the Net by taking their data and starving them for views, the continuing and worsening problems of Google Account lockouts and recovery failures and associated data loss, and the continuing acquisition of consumer product firms (Nest, Fitbit, etc.) forcing people to use Google Accounts who previously did not need to, is causing me to reluctantly rethink my positions on this issue and other issues associated with regulatory matters impacting Google.
I have long been opposed to government efforts to break up #Google on antitrust grounds. My general feeling about such efforts involving large tech firms is that they typically do more harm than good in the long run, and I point to AT&T as an obvious example among many.
However, the confluence of Google's "hell bent for leather" AI push, the rapid decline of Google Search, the damage Google's new AI policies are doing to websites all over the Net by taking their data and starving them for views, the continuing and worsening problems of Google Account lockouts and recovery failures and associated data loss, and the continuing acquisition of consumer product firms (Nest, Fitbit, etc.) forcing people to use Google Accounts who previously did not need to, is causing me to reluctantly rethink my positions on this issue and other issues associated with regulatory matters impacting Google.