A word to the Justice Department, which is considering whether to push for a breakup of Google to spur competition in the online search market: Don’t. We’ve seen this movie before and it ended poorly. As Rob Atkinson explains in the Wall Street Journal, the 1984 breakup of AT&T was supposed to ignite competition and innovation but did the opposite. If we rush to dismantle Google, we risk undermining our global competitiveness against China and other adversaries.
Read the op-ed.
