Tim "Net Neutrality" Wu on the case for breaking up Facebook

When most people hear “break up Facebook,” they think of something a lot more drastic than splitting off instagram and whatsapp.

I think part of the issue people have with the idea of the stronger one is, nobody needs to used FB or Twitter. In fact, most people would be better off not using them. You could argue for a necessity for a search engine, but you can change your default search engine to any of several alternatives in a few seconds, so when people use Google, it’s because they want to. In particular, I’m thinking of companies like Yelp and scammy shopping search engines who are accusing google of anticompetitive behavior for not ranking them higher. They aren’t ranked higher because they’re shitty scams, and the reason people use Google is because it shows them what they want to see, rather than some shitty scam.