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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (402534)	3/12/2019 4:39:40 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 544068

No she did not! She made declarations that these companies are too big to have around and that she will break them apart. It is not for the executive branch to make such decisions. There are antitrust laws and if they were applicable, one of the competitors would have already brought down a lawsuit. Best just give up, friend. This is political campaign rhetoric. In fact, the best kind of it. Very policy based. We've got a monopoly problem in tech (let's examine it) and it needs fixing (let's find ways to fix it). This is the process of making laws, the process of making competition better. Which last time I checked was supposed to be one of the prime virtues of capitalism. Save it needs more than a nudge or two from government as largeness in capitalism drives inevitably toward monopoly or duopoly. Not toward more efficiency and more competition. At least not at the size level we are talking. But she didn't put it that way, did she? Instead she committed to breaking them apart offhand. Now tell me why that is not the making of an executive who ignores due process and sees herself above the law? She is definitely a bit more dogmatic than I would be but then I'm not trying to get large numbers of votes to pull the levers for me. My read is that campaigns require this kind of definitiveness to get voters attention. But we all, at least most of us, understand the theatre of it.