- Question
Should we break up the Big Tech companies?
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and others are now some of the largest and most powerful corporations in world history. Their reach is global, their resources and power eclipsing all but the largest nations. With their monopolies on entire market sectors and their political impact, has Big Tech become detrimental to the public good?
The Big Tech companies need to be broken up
This position holds that the Big Tech companies need to be broken up. It argues they have built monopolies through anti-competitive practices that stifle innovation and block rivals from competing, and that they cannot be trusted to protect users' sensitive personal data.
The Big Tech companies should not be broken up
This position holds that the Big Tech companies should not be broken up. It argues their rise is a free-market success story, that their services are indispensable to consumers, that their scale benefits research and development, and that forced break-ups would be illegal.