Which of these guys is the most vulnerable to antitrust action, if it comes to that?
The specter of antitrust action against four of the largest tech companies in the world has evolved into a parlor game among some in Silicon Valley: What antitrust suspect is the most vulnerable to a government-imposed action if it comes to that?
Each of the four companies could be penalized to some degree—from injunctive to structural —but a breakup of any kind is “highly unlikely,” says Herbert Hovenkamp, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who teaches at both its law and business schools. MarketWatch asked Hovenkamp, Zuboff, and other experts to assess the regulatory threats for all four companies. They are listed here in order of consensus risk that some type of action will be taken.
“The rest have plenty of enemies banging pots, especially Amazon, but in terms of the actual law, Facebook is the low-hanging fruit,” says Wu, author of “The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.”Vanderbilt University law professor Rebecca Allensworth puts it more bluntly: She considers Facebook the most vulnerable of the four because of “its dominant status in an easily defined market.
Opinion: Apple’s loss at the Supreme Court is ‘a big victory for consumers’ fighting Big Tech’s app and platform monopolies Alphabet The Silicon Valley behemoth has extended its influence far beyond search and social media and into artificial intelligence, robotics, and renewable energy through 270 acquisitions, according to Wu.
Additionally, the lack of app store price competition on Google Play Store could stifle broader digital innovation because of restrictive monetization practices, another vector by which Delrahim believes uncompetitive markets could impose consumer harm, according to Horowitz.
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