<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Alice</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Thanks for sharing. This lawsuit recommends the break up of Facebook. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">My humble opinion below.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">These are extreme measures by lazy Policy Makers and Regulators who have a political ax to grind. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">History has shown that breaking up companies is not a solution. The breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 should have taught everyone a lesson. The solution is Policy and Regulatory interventions that stop companies from behaving like it's the Wild Wild West. Here are a few thoughts:-</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">(1) Stop acquisitions that create unholy moats around companies.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">(2) Heavy fines for misbehaving in the marketplace. Like the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-07/big-tech-sets-up-a-kill-zone-for-industry-upstarts">Kill Zones</a> for startups that Big Tech has created. Heavy fines that would impact their balance sheets. ile iwe funzo, not a few billion dollars that amount to a rounding error in their balance sheets. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">(3) Ban executives who misbehave from ever working in the industry again.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">(4) Initiatives to limit State Capture by these corporations.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2" style="">My two cowrie shells.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:49 AM Alice Munyua via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Very interesting case<br>
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