Father of Web, Tim Berners-Lee, says tech giants may have to be split up - Sensationalist Headlines

Let's not forget the preferential treatment of streamers by Twitch staff based on whether they show their tits or not, or are attractive. For me, that's what broke the camel's back on how much I dislike Twitch. The problem is it's too unregulated. Twitch needs to be put in their place, they were fine when they started like most services but they've just spiraled out of control.

It would probably be enough to heavily legislate against ad targeting (just outright outlaw it) and force companies to implement open server APIs for their content. That would kill the informational and momentum advantage the huge services have for the most part, at which point anything else with better or just more individualised tech could seamlessly eat into their market share. (Regarding more individualised: Discord and Slack for example aren't really competitors due to their entirely different target audiences, but they're so similar in function that they could in theory interface, had they open APIs.)

Honestly I can't really see a way to effectively split up companies and prevent them from just rejoining like Bell did. It would require such precise language and definitions to state when companies are at the point that they need to be split up or penalized, and every market is different. Going with an "I'll know it when I see it" approach is not fair and lends itself to abuse or neglect. Additionally the process of actually splitting up a conglomerate seems so difficult due to their inter-connectivity that you'd have to keep a watchful eye over every decision they all make so they don't just work together incognito and become a oligopoly. I think capitalism just naturally lends itself to consolidation and it would be difficult to design laws to prevent that without seriously micromanaging every business transaction. Single services like Facebook, Amazon, etc. that cater to nearly everything are popular because people like convenience and they like things that are cheap/free. Companies that are successful just keep growing, and so they eventually have so much capital that they just spend it buying out competition that could threaten them, or just advance so far that no startup could ever compete due to the financial investment required or the ability to sell at a loss for extended periods to compete. I really don't know how this will ever be solved. You'd have to have the government intervene so early in the market to referee it and make sure no one gets too far ahead, and I don't think our government is omnipresent or intelligent enough to do that effectively, and that would also trample over the rights of business owners. Realistically you'd need to government to own essential financial and communications-related industries and subcontract out everything, so that every company is just working for the government, so that the government can effectively regulate decisions in the best interest of the people, but then you'd need to make sure the government doesn't fuck it all up.

I've reached the point that if governments aren't gonna do it, we gotta do it ourselves. All of em. Tech giants and ISPs.

May have to be? You mean abso-fucking-lutely need to be.