Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, a history of antitrust in the United States, makes a compelling case that it doesn’t. A professor at Columbia Law School known for coining the term “net neutrality,” Wu argues that the very bigness of present-day companies — especially those in the tech sector — does not just harm consumers, but that it also threatens innovation and undermines the power of government. The New Gilded Age even holds the risk of something unprecedented in the United States: an undemocratic alliance between big tech companies and the government.

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