Breaking Up Google Is a Fool’s Game
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.
