Noah Smith: Big Tech needs strict privacy rules, not a breakup

A new idea has come into vogue: breaking up Big Tech. The list of people calling for antitrust action against Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple and other big tech companies is growing. New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway has lead the charge, arguing that these companies’ size and technological disruption have lead to a host of social ills, from tax avoidance to job destruction to electoral interference.The idea comes at a moment when anger at, and fear of, the tech giants