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Hmm...yes, it's all about "disliking" tech companies. I can't imagine a more disingenuous framing of the argument. slate.com/technology/201… 
To be fair, Cowen does not explicitly talk about "dislike" as a reason behind the call to break up the companies, but overall the article shows what happens when you only have libertarian economics handy to look at the world. He argues that existing anti-trust law doesn't apply..
...but this is exactly the point critics have been making. We have new entities that were not anticipated by anti-trust laws from another era. To analyze the present entirely through that lens is a failure of critical thinking.
The only lens Cowen looks through is the immediate explicit harm to "consumers" and judges these tech companies a-ok. But the harm is bigger than that. The structures and operations of these companies literally threaten democratic governance, and not just in the U.S.
I'm sort of imagining @sivavaid's head exploding at the subhead. Hopefully not literally.
