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Use the laws on the books to make these companies public trusts, as was done to the large trusts in the 20th century. If there is real competition on these plat
by tarboreus 6y ago
Use the laws on the books to make these companies public trusts, as was done to the large trusts in the 20th century. If there is real competition on these platforms, if there were many app stores, then this wouldn't be an issue. These five or six companies have too much consolidated power.
- kemitchell 6y agoCan you provide an example of a public trust from the 20th century? I'm aware of "trust busting" in an earlier time, but not nationalizations, except, predominantly, in time of war.
- tarboreus 6y agoA late comment, but Bell is the ur-example of this, and a huge, almost ridiculous, amount of innovation came out of Bell Labs.
- likeclockwork 6y agoYou want to nationalize social media and smartphone OSes? Fine. You're over private property? Okay, me too. But let's handle these requests in the order they arrived, that's fair isn't it? We'll get to social media right after we nationalize health care and energy.