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Republicans and Democrats increasingly agree: Big Tech is too powerful
- nibsfive 6y agoLike a mob boss that grew up unloved by their father, they just want organic respect but see the world through zero sum eyes.
- kjrose 6y agoThe question is what is the right way to deal with it? So many things big tech does fundamentally becomes a monopoly just due to the nature of it. I remember moaning and groaning about windows and Microsoft in the 90s and wishing someone would break the monopoly, but I had no clue what would would without making matters worse. Turning facebook or Google into a utility like at&t seems like a Bad idea.
- ergot_vacation 6y agoNobody actually needs Facebook or Twitter, even in a tech/web context, in the same way that nobody actually needs McDonalds or Coke. They're "addictive" junk food. The economy and society will work just fine without them. We DO need a powerful, uncensored search engine, but that's all the more reason to proscribe some clear limitations for that service and cut it off from being mixed up in anything else. Cut Google back to what it was in the early days: just a simple PageRank search. Keep the anti-spam measures and a handful of things like image search, but cut off the rest of the cruft. Firewall search from everything else Google has gotten into over these many years. Maybe we need a federal law that if your company runs a (major) search engine, you're not allowed to dip your toes into anything else.
- CryptoBanker 6y agoRepublicans and Democrats increasingly agree: The people love Big Tech more than they love us time for Big Tech to get knocked down a peg