The Catch-22 of Big Tech Antitrust

The push to break up Big Tech companies has become a popular refrain among politicians and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic, and, here in the U.S., both sides of the aisle. In response to a federal judge’s ruling in August that Google had an illegal monopoly over search traffic, the Justice Department has proposed that the company sell off Chrome, the world’s most-used web browser, as a remedy. While drastic, this may seem like a clean solution to Google’s dominance in search: Yank apart the distribution network.