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by elgar1212
1289 days ago
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> Well, Big Tech is not the only concentrated industry. A bunch of concentrated industries use Big Tech antitrust as a pretext for going after Big Tech—not to end monopoly but to redistribute the industry’s share of the monopoly themselves. So, cable operators, phone companies, entertainment companies. I think it’s fair to say that the big entertainment companies don’t want to kill Google; they just want to take it over. Some of the energy that comes up to break up or tame Big Tech is coming from other sectors that are every bit as much in need of taming and breakup as Big Tech is. This is the most notable bit of information in the article The whole big tech thing has three camps: big tech itself, other corporations like telecoms which want to buy out tech companies like verizon bought out yahoo, and politicians in DC who want to blackmail tech companies and control the flow of information[0] government regulation is a double edged sword, and wherever there's a bunch of money there's a bunch of people who want to take it [0] https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat... |
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