Should Big Tech be broken up or highly regulated?

[Zinneke]

I listened to an intelligence squared podast debate about this and was wondering what the denizens of this forum thought of how to approach Big Tech in general.

The argument for breaking them up is that their worst practices can be attributed to their oligopoly and the fact that competitors to their markets are stifled. If newer enterprises entered the market and offered their services based on being more trustworthy it would be beneficial to the consumer. Regulating them is counter-productive as government simply doesn't have the means to control content or acts.

The argument against is that it won't stop tech companies spying on their users because that's the best product outcome, and that regulating them helps steer them into the right direction far better. Also something like Facebook relies on everyone being there.