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> The policies back them into being a monopolistic heavy whether they mean to or not That only happens because they deliberately put themselves in a position o
by clusterfish 6y ago
> The policies back them into being a monopolistic heavy whether they mean to or not
That only happens because they deliberately put themselves in a position of market power. If they didn't have such crazy amounts of power nobody would care about their "policies" misfiring. None of this is accidental in the big picture, we're well past any window of plausible deniability with Google. They can't perpetually claim incompetence.
- neonate 6y agoI'm not sure what the complaint is there. They grew their business, which is what every business tries to do, nothing unique to Google about that. The interesting question is are they finally becoming a victim of their success. It seems obvious to me that the big tech companies have grown past the size where public interest / public square questions start to kick in, which is why the "it's a private company, they can do what they want on their own platform, no free speech issues to see here" argument is so weak. It's also not at all in the long-term political interests of the people who've recently adopted it as a mantra, just for a temporary advantage over their adversaries. Not smart, guys.
- clusterfish 6y agoThe complaint is, we don't need to allow big tech so much power. Utilities are heavily regulated to prevent monopolistic abuse. Big tech is showing similar "natural monopoly" tendencies and so needs to be reigned in with regulation because free markets are failing here.