The European parliament voted to authorize pursuit of the idea of breaking up Google and a few of the other ‘gafa’ (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) for antitrust reasons.
I’ve explained here that none of these is a monopoly in the traditional 19th century sense where industry entry is too costly (no longer a possibility with the level of distributed capital in the world) nor are they buying up potential competitors.
They are ‘service monopolies’ a term I invented more than 30 years ago to describe a business that gains a dominant share of the market because it serves its customers so well, that movement to a competitor only occurs when the ‘service monopoly’ fails to match the quality of the competitor. People stay where they are, shop where they do, behave as they do so long as it is comfortable. They only change when the change is worthwhile.
The Europeans claim to want to generate local competition and get more taxes from the ‘gafa’. Its hard to tax anything that is electrical and international. Too bad.
As for creating local competition: you European idiots never stop driving entrepreneurs away from Europe. First it was communism and socialism, then pervasive ‘Jew hate’ and for the past half century it has been work rules only an incompetent zombie could like.
Europe, you are dead. Get used to the coffin you live in. Leave the rest of living people alone.