When I first heard of Warren's proposal to breakup corporations >25 billion in assets, it didn't sound like a good idea to me, more like that of an exhausted bureaucrat.
After reading this article in The Intercept, it is making much more sense to me. It kinda fits into her whole corporate rehabilitation program, which also sounds good to me.
"The idea is that these entities get preferential treatment from the platform they own, giving Basics, Google ad tech, and Google Search an unfair advantage and extending the platform’s dominance. Only the biggest companies would have to structurally separate; smaller platforms would still have to meet a standard of fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory treatment for participants on the platform and its users." [theintercept.com]
if it's the right thing to do & would benefit ordinary pl, it'll never happen.
Wow, that's for sure !!!