Ron DeSantis Said Google Should Be Broken Up
The loudest voice calling for dramatic Big Tech break up in the upcoming 2024 presidential election might not come from President Joe Biden or progressive lefties, but rather, from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis . The conservative governor and probable presidential candidate revealed his views at a private event caught on video, where he said dominant tech firms like Google and Meta are “ruining our country” and should be broken up. In his view, Big Tech behemoths are worse for society than Standard Oil and other monopolistic industry titans from the Gilded Age, he said.
“I do think companies like Google should be broken up,” DeSantis said during a 2021 invite-only retreat at the ultra-conservative Teneo Network. “They’re just too big and they have too much power.”
DeSantis hasn’t shied away from opportunities to pick on tech companies in the past, but the obscure interview, recently revealed by ProPublica, is the first known instance of him calling for an all-out breakup. That fiery proclamation puts him further in the anti-tech camp than nearly all of his fellow Republicans and quite a few Democrats.
