Friedberg: Big Tech scale benefits consumers and shouldn't be broken up
David Friedberg · E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet · Jan 11, 2021 · at 1:27:19
David Friedberg argues against antitrust breakup of tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook during a podcast debate on platform regulation.
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“I also think consumers benefit from the scale that they operate at. And I don't think that they should be broken up. And I think that there's economic value to having Google be at the scale it's at and Amazon being at the scale it's at and Facebook being a scale it's at. And it doesn't harm consumers. I think it helps in aggregate in terms of pricing and service availability.”
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