Comment Re:And no one went to jail then, either... (Score 2) 116
Actually... If Facebook or Twitter were to fail, apart from employees and shareholders, very little parts of the economy would suffer. Marketing would have to reinvent itself and find new ways of reaching people, end of. WhatsApp could be replaced by almost anything else (is Viber still running?)
Google, Apple and Microsoft would be a bit different. We'd all lose our emails, support for our phones / computers / wearables etc. But that can be restructured/sold under Chapter 11 proceedings.
Amazon is "just" a bit marketplace. People would find a way to start selling stuff elsewhere!
TL;DR: Nobody in the tech industry is too big to fail. Let them.