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It's not baffling, it's populism. Only so many issues can be discussed at once in the commons and politicians are mostly going to react to those. So BLM, Face
by jariel 6y ago
It's not baffling, it's populism.
Only so many issues can be discussed at once in the commons and politicians are mostly going to react to those.
So BLM, Facebook, Twitter, the Election, Trump etc. are sucking up all the air and that's that.
There are other ugly factors: CNN is owned by AT&T. So do you think CNN is going to help 'fan the flames' of the movement? I don't think so.
'Anti Trust' is also a complicated word, almost a little to complicated for MSM cable news. It's possible for watchers to understand 'Privacy and Facebook' but it's a struggle to get the plebes to try to think about such an abstraction as 'anti trust'.
Those entities spend a fortune lobbying both sides of congress.
Without some popular focus and the press latching onto it like they did BLM, it's going to be hard to get some kind of movement going there.
Even politicians that 'care' about the issue are going to want to 'pick their battles' and it might not be a while before someone starts knocking on that door.