Do You Think We Should Revisit the Definition of a Monopoly?

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I'm in favour of the motion as a last resort, to go back to your very first questioner asking how these tex giants could be broken up. Right now, i can't get these people to call me back. These c eos from these firms, they do not want to answer. I'll tell you something, when i write a negative piece about jamie diamond, he calls me on the phone. Haven't heard from any of them yet. That's the chief executive of j p morgan. They're to they're too busy on their corporate jets. One more comment please. The new chief executive of general electric g e, is saying it's time to break up

With so much data and power centralised in the hands of a few West Coast companies, the tech giants have become a serious threat to our basic freedoms and must be broken up. That’s the argument that was made at this major Intelligence Squared debate by the FT’s global business columnist Rana Foroohar and by businessman and former chairman of Channel 4 Luke Johnson. But others would argue that it’s all too easy to make the tech giants a scapegoat for the inevitable upheavals caused by the digital revolution. The real winners of this revolution are not the tech companies but us, the users. Who could now imagine living without the services of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? That’s the case that was made in our debate by former head of Facebook’s European politics and government division Elizabeth Linder and competition law expert Pinar Akman. Who's right and who's wrong?

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