It's a bold plan, but experts tell us its unlikely to happen given the history of antitrust cases and how difficult it would be to carry out.
to break up tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google by forcing them to divest some of their biggest acquisitions.
To establish precedent, Warren wrote that"America has a long tradition of breaking up companies when they have become too big and dominant." But for NYU Law Professor and antitrust expert, Harry First, that interpretation is questionable. "If Congress changes the antitrust laws, perhaps it could [happen], but that is a remote possibility and unlikely to be a high priority for either the House or Senate," Pachter said."[It's] about as likely as is Mexico paying for Trump's wall."
In the past, Berg said, breaking up a telecoms or oil giants would have been easier because their product offerings weren't as integrated as they are today. Instead, businesses could be broken up simply by region, he said.
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