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Trump definitely speaks like a lunatic, and I can't parse if any of his opinions come from a place other than feeling slighted, but I see the issue with big tec
by dbmikus 8y ago
Trump definitely speaks like a lunatic, and I can't parse if any of his opinions come from a place other than feeling slighted, but I see the issue with big tech is that they keep buying up or copying and exterminating competitors. Yes, we derive a lot of value from them, but who's to say that we would not have gotten greater value from a proliferation of social services or from Google not directly harming other specialized search products.
That line of thinking falls on the EU end of the spectrum, where they value market competition versus the US where they look at things just through the consumer lense. It's hard to say which is better.
- MBCook 8y agoWe’ve had discussions along these lines before on hacker news. There is a definitely a contingent of people, myself included, who think they should’ve been regulated or broken up quite a while ago. Unfortunately that’s not the motivation behind this story. So doesn’t really seem worth discussing now.