Open Up vs. Break Up

There have been many calls to break up the large Internet monopolies; Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. A good way to explain this is to go back to the architecture that Twitter used in its early days when there were many third-party Twitter clients. Imagine if Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc were protocols, not applications, and there were many high-quality clients to participate in these networks.

Source: avc.com