Taber: Regulators will attempt to break up Big Tech, likely targeting Facebook
Mike Taber · Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike · Dec 22, 2020 · at 11:25
Mike Taber shares his 2021 predictions with Rob Walling on Startups for the Rest of Us regarding government antitrust regulation targeting major technology platforms.
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“There's going to be a over attempt by a government and I'm going to, you know, kind of lump a couple of them together, like the United States, either the United States federal government, the European union, or even maybe even, I doubt a state government would have the ability to do this, but they're going to attempt to break up at least one of the big tech companies. And my money on that would be on Facebook, but I think that Amazon, Apple, and Google are kind of all there in the crosshairs, but I think that Facebook is probably the one that it would end up being targeted if any of them were.”
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