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The down votes are concerning. Regardless of your opinion on FAANGXYZ there are other industries which aren't being talked about enough (banks, oil companies, e

• blub 7y ago
  US big tech have been able so far to lobby (read buy) themselves out of any regulatory corrections. Only the EU has fined these behemoths and there's a large contingent of people that start crying discrimination whenever that happens. We need to keep this topic under public scrutiny until these companies stop abusing their dominance. And it's not a smear campaign if the criticism is true.
• Monroe13 7y ago
  But keep in mind the 3 year smear campaign followed a multi-year media love fest for Big Tech. The Tech industry has spent billions on PR. That spending propped up a massive media infrastructure — how many reporters cover the tech beat? How many of those reporters exist because their publication host events and conferences, run advertorials, print “Special Features”, etc. paid for in large part by the tech industry? — and the industry naively thought they had the leverage to control the narrative. They were wrong and now the massive infrastructure they built to help them market their products has turned on them. The amount of noise being generated is a function of the size of the “problem” but it’s also a function of the size of the media-industrial complex built by the industry. Ag and Oil are also under scrutiny but you shouldn’t be surprised they get less attention. They haven’t spent nearly as much over the last decade twirling shiny objects to distract from poor business practices.