[mrkurt]

Antitrust concerns are reasonably bipartisan. The democratic candidates are getting traction with antitrust platforms because the time is right and they’re the presidential challengers. If Obama was still president, Josh Hawley (for example) would be running a similar primary campaign, with similar success.

[dageshi]

I doubt it. As someone outside the US looking in, real rage towards companies like Facebook/Google only really became a mainstream topic after Trump won.

The rage induced by that event got directed at Facebook initially and has now broadened to include all the big tech companies that profit from data collection.

If Hillary had won or in a theoretical world where Obama was still president then talk of breaking up Facebook/Google would still be a niche murmur.

[mrkurt]

I think that’s just a coincidence. This has been simmering for about 30 years, I think tech monopolies are just very visible.

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg was going to make a presidential run and went canvassing the country in 2016? The dems loved the guy.