Will breaking up big tech foster or stifle innovation?

By Ezra Konvitz and Hendrik Jandel

Elizabeth Warren recently published her ideas on breaking up Google, Facebook and Amazon and, subsequently, Apple, and big tech looks set to be a big talking point in the 2020 election and beyond.

These take many forms: there are the perennial issues in the debate about tech and the public good: privacy, tax, (sometimes) inadvertent unwholesomeness, weak employee/‘partner’ protections. And there are the more recent concerns that have started to bubble up into the public…