Ugh. I am a person who accepts that government sometimes has an appropriate role in regulating things. Sometimes. And I am not an unquestioning fanboy of any o

Ugh. I am a person who accepts that government sometimes has an appropriate role in regulating things. Sometimes. And I am not an unquestioning fanboy of any of the three mentioned companies. But she seems to be aiming in the wrong direction. First, we should err on the side of letting markets be free. But if there is anything that deserves intervention, broadband monopolies are a much bigger problem imho than getting Amazon out of Whole Foods. And even worse, the combination of broadband companies getting control and ownership of content, to the extent that they are no longer dumb pipes, but they become interested in using content to extract top dollar in every scenario, with consumer unfriendly practices like bundling and walled gardens. The fact that we can't have decent broadband at good prices in the US is, to me, a much bigger problem than Google owning Waze. Or Facebook owning WhatsApp -- which actually seems like a good thing, since it being in house could get Facebook on a faster path to good encryption, assuming their professed interest in that is sincere. If you want to regulate Google, regulate their privacy practices. If you want to regulate Facebook, regulate the way they enable hidden players to influence elections. If you want to regulate Amazon, well, just keep them out of the broadband business because owning both the pipes and the content is bad for consumers. So tired of having clueless candidates.