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by throwaways885 1959 days ago
True, I'm not in favour of global monopolies.

That being said, we've seen time and again governments will introduce laws with a fair reason and then totally abuse it down the line (Patriot Act anyone).

In my country, the government locks people up for making offensive Tweets based on mostly unrelated legislation from decades ago.

The free and open web is still here, just most people don't choose to use it. Whatever you think of Big Tech, you can go somewhere else and build a website. DuckDuckGo proves it's possible to crack these companies with enough of a value prop.