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Platformer / Casey Newton / Oct 8
“What would rock the tech world is if the giants were forced to unwind some of their largest properties — YouTube from Google, Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook, and perhaps even Amazon Web Services from its parent. But while they do recommend that lawmakers explore “structural separations,” Democrats stop short of issuing a full-throated call for a breakup of any company. It’s not clear why…But if lawmakers won’t call for it in this report, I don’t know why we expect that they ever would.”
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