It's war: FTC prepared to break up Big Tech

Amid an investigation of alleged anti-competitive practices, and widespread complaints among consumers of political bias and privacy violations, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that a breakup of the tech giants could be the right remedy.

Chairman Joe Simons told Bloomberg he is leading a broad review of the technology sector to see whether companies, including Google and Facebook, are harming competition.

"If you have to, you do it," Simons said, according to Reuters. "It's not ideal because it's very messy. But if you have to you have to."

Reuters noted that Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a leading 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, has vowed to break up Amazon, Google and Facebook if elected to promote competition.

The censorship and privacy violations of Google and its tech counterparts have been documented by current employees as well as internal documents and recordings.

Last week, CNBC reported a newly obtained internal email discussion showed Google employees were concerned about the tech giant's threat to free speech and its moderation of content three years before the issue entered political discourse.

As WND reported, the previous week, Google software engineer Greg Coppola was placed on administrative leave hours after he accused the company of political bias in an interview with Project Veritas.

In 2017, Google fired engineer James Damore for circulating an internal memo titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber." And engineer Mike Wacker was fired earlier this year after speaking out about the company’s "outrage mobs."