4 ms·
> The bipartisan move towards antitrust is undergirded by bipartisan grassroots discontent. Depends on which companies you're talking about. There's widespread
by dodobirdlord 5y ago
> The bipartisan move towards antitrust is undergirded by bipartisan grassroots discontent.
Depends on which companies you're talking about. There's widespread discontent about social media companies, but the left and right wing of the political spectrum have opposite and incompatible discontents, so I don't think it's justifiable to call it "bipartisan grassroots discontent". The non-social-media "Big Tech" companies remain extremely popular and well-regarded in surveys of the general public. Google, Amazon, and Netflix were 3 of the top 5 most loved brands of 2020, losing out only to mail carriers (and Google took second place, ahead of UPS). Google and Amazon each have two of the top 10 spots (Google + YouTube, Amazon + Amazon Prime). The idea that there is roiling popular discontent about the activities of Google and Amazon is entirely a media fabrication.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/995767/consumers-most-loved-brands-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/995767/consumers-most-lo...