Comment by Samuel Akintunde on "What does everybody think about the US government passing legislation on breaking up big tech companies such as Google, Facebook, etc?"

CommentWhat does everybody think about the US government passing legislation on breaking up big tech companies such as Google, Facebook, etc?

Samuel Akintunde

Designer & Developer

Mar 13, 2019

I think it's a pretty good direction. It's not exactly punishment, it's just regulation. Left unchecked, these companies would get too powerful and become a monopoly.

Take Google for example, from Android to Gmail to Chrome to Maps. They are starting to own a very large share of access to most parts of our lives. Microsoft's decided to use Chromium in their browser now. The major browsers out there are Chrome and Firefox(sorry, Safari). How easy would you think it is for Chrome to just start rolling out standards they want developers to comply with? Very easy, I'd say.

It just isn't healthy, for everyone.

Serdar Sanri

Sr. Frontend Developer

Mar 13, 2019

How easy would you think it is for Chrome to just start rolling out standards they want developers to comply with?

aren't they already?

I mean not officially dictating this is the standard, you have to use this standard but as a web developer, so many times came across that if something doesn't work on chrome ( barely.. or am I thinking about IE.. sorry IE ) then it means it doesn't work even they are fine in other browsers.

Certainly right about that one about them owning our lives, because lets face it is the truth lol x

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