| These articles are utter nonsense. Large tech companies are beloved by the vast majority of consumers and workers. The only groups of people dissatisfied with them are: (a) members of the government, who don't like to see anyone becoming more powerful or influential than them without being subjected to numerous regulations and restrictions and (b) the media, who need articles to print to get people to click on ads and who often have ties to the groups who fall under (a). Finally there is (c) companies who have to compete with large tech co's. Most people reading what I just wrote will assume I am some kind of troll - I assure you I am not. Aside from perhaps Amazon, many people would kill to work at these companies and most of the workers at these companies would not quit if given the option. It certainly isn't the average tech worker that is unhappy! For consumers: Go outside on the street right now and ask the first person you see how they feel about: Android, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Netflix. Chances are, you are going to meet someone that rabidly consumes services from all of these companies on a daily basis and couldn't be more satisfied. The idea that Facebook and others are "beleaguered" is fairly baseless. They are doing better than ever! If anything, these companies are likely to get tax cuts and incentives under Trump so they can keep doing better. The idea that there is going to be any regulatory restriction or anti-trust claims against these companies anytime soon (especially under Trump) seems far-fetched. We are talking about 3 - 8 years before anything is really done to them by government regulatory agencies. For this reason: It is really strange to see these articles being written when they are so far away from reality. Keep in mind, Trump's goal is to support the US economy. Why would he attempt to start dismantling key corporations that compete with many, many Chinese and overseas competitors on his watch? It will never happen. As for Facebook's "Fake News" problem: Allegations that Russia used Facebook to "disseminate fake news" are a thinly disguised power grab by the government, nothing more. The evidence that the small ad purchases threw the election is completely baseless, despite what you have read in the media. The entire "Fake News" angle is the covert that is being used to attempt to implement Chinese-style censorship in the United States. Anyone who really believes in "Fake News" is just begging for censorship of all Internet content. Watching the media printing and re-printing this storyline is very similar to the "Trump campaign melting down from within" stories that came up every week during the presidential campaign. Not only where these stories not true, they were politically motivated. |