Should the federal government break up Big Tech companies?

While Washington debates breaking up Google and Meta, Beijing is pouring state money into AI, chips, and quantum computing. America's tech giants are among the few Western companies with the scale to compete with subsidized Chinese champions. Splitting them into smaller pieces would not create competition with China; it would create five smaller companies that each lose to one giant one. Antitrust law exists to protect consumers, and consumers currently get search, maps, video hosting, and social networking for free. Prices have not risen; they are zero. The Pew Research Center has found Americans are divided on whether tech companies need more regulation, not clamoring for breakups. There are real abuses to police, but weakening our own champions during a technology race is self-sabotage dressed up as reform.