As long as our online conversations and social interactions are mediated by third parties that are incentivized to manipulate them, those third parties should f

As long as our online conversations and social interactions are mediated by third parties that are incentivized to manipulate them, those third parties should face the kind of scrutiny that Pao is suggesting. In my view, the long term solution is (ideally market-driven) disintermediation of these third parties. The same is true for banking. As long as our financial transactions are mediated by third parties with an incentive to manipulate them, those third parties should face intense scrutiny. But ideally, they will be disintermediated rather than refereed in the long term.