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> -and that it's legally allowed to do so--is the best reason I've seen so far to break up Big Tech.

Of course it is legal.. Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to.. But you want to break it up and what then exactly.. ?

> Both Android and Chrome need to be spun out--at this point they are basically public utilities

No, they're not.. And they're not a fundamental right either.



Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to.

Lots of court cases have forced merchants to sell to minorities to whom they would rather have not sold.


Could you share on some references to products and not services forced to be sold ?

Also policy based and not discriminatory based..


Chromium is already open source.


Technically so is Android but thats a whole other can of worms..


> Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to..

Of course the state can do that.


Turkey can if Google wants to do business in Turkey- if it isn't a legal business entity in Turkey, then no, not really.


Google has a legal business entity in Turkey.


For now- but if Turkey gets snippy back w/Google and tries to force the issue, that entity will simply cease to exist.




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