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It's weird how they focus on big tech while ignoring banking, ISPs, healthcare, education, real estate, utilities and many others. Lot of markets that could use

It's weird how they focus on big tech while ignoring banking, ISPs, healthcare, education, real estate, utilities and many others. Lot of markets that could use more competition.

jedberg 5y ago
Big tech is just the most visible thing to people right now. Just like oil and steel and telecom were when those were broken up (and incidentally breaking those up didn't seem to last).
azinman2 5y ago
That’s exactly my thought. Except, in many of these cases it’s simply too late. In particular for retail, go to much of the country and the only options for restaurants, grocery, clothing, etc are national chains. Many of these areas just have a Walmart and that’s it. Fast food dominates (along with its hazards). Nothing was done to prevent this, which has been draining local economies for years, and now all the local competition is literally gone.
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endisneigh 5y ago
honestly I hear this a lot - why does it matter? do you think the government isn't working on those other things as well? misdirection must be the most effective strategy of all time. in an alternate universe this would be "Lina Khan: The 32-year-old taking on ISPs" and there would be an identical comment to yours lamenting why Big Tech isn't being investigated
- threatofrain 5y ago
  Yes, they aren't. The ISP game is over.
  - endisneigh 5y ago
    lol, this is not true. The American Jobs Act introduced by Biden explicitly calls out the ISP issue and tries to allow co-ops, municipalities and utilities to compete with local ISPs. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... even if they were not, it's still irrelevant to the issue of Big Tech. people can resolve issues sequentially.
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thesausageking 5y ago
Even in "tech", they only focus on consumer tech. In healthcare, Epic has done so many things to drive up the cost of healthcare and prevent innovation: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/health-care-data-sharing-rules-touch-off-intense-lobbying-fight-099289 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/health-care-data-sh... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/epic-ceo-sends-letter-urging-hospitals-to-oppose-hhs-data-sharing-rule.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/epic-ceo-sends-letter-urging...
pydry 5y ago
Probably coz theyre not growing as fast.
imiric 5y ago
It's like there's a pattern of behavior here that needs a more generic solution?
BitwiseFool 5y ago
Big Tech is the only one that actually competes with Journalism's business model. Facebook and Google destroyed media outlets' hold on advertising and disseminating information.
- ceilingcorner 5y ago
  Ding ding ding. We have a winner. In a democracy, the media has all the real power. That’s why we’re seeing endless op-eds against tech.
- pupppet 5y ago
  >Big Tech is the only one that actually competes with Journalism's business model. A journalist can see reasonable success reporting important stories, big tech only sees success reporting popular stories. Let's not pretend they're doing the same job, journalists have a legitimate beef with big tech.

It's weird how they focus on big tech while ignoring banking, ISPs, healthcare, education, real estate, utilities and many others. Lot of markets that could use more competition.

jedberg 5y ago

Big tech is just the most visible thing to people right now. Just like oil and steel and telecom were when those were broken up (and incidentally breaking those up didn't seem to last).

azinman2 5y ago

That’s exactly my thought. Except, in many of these cases it’s simply too late. In particular for retail, go to much of the country and the only options for restaurants, grocery, clothing, etc are national chains. Many of these areas just have a Walmart and that’s it. Fast food dominates (along with its hazards). Nothing was done to prevent this, which has been draining local economies for years, and now all the local competition is literally gone.

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endisneigh 5y ago

honestly I hear this a lot - why does it matter? do you think the government isn't working on those other things as well? misdirection must be the most effective strategy of all time. in an alternate universe this would be "Lina Khan: The 32-year-old taking on ISPs" and there would be an identical comment to yours lamenting why Big Tech isn't being investigated

threatofrain 5y ago
Yes, they aren't. The ISP game is over.
- endisneigh 5y ago
  lol, this is not true. The American Jobs Act introduced by Biden explicitly calls out the ISP issue and tries to allow co-ops, municipalities and utilities to compete with local ISPs. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... even if they were not, it's still irrelevant to the issue of Big Tech. people can resolve issues sequentially.
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thesausageking 5y ago

Even in "tech", they only focus on consumer tech. In healthcare, Epic has done so many things to drive up the cost of healthcare and prevent innovation: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/health-care-data-sharing-rules-touch-off-intense-lobbying-fight-099289 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/health-care-data-sh... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/epic-ceo-sends-letter-urging-hospitals-to-oppose-hhs-data-sharing-rule.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/epic-ceo-sends-letter-urging...

pydry 5y ago

Probably coz theyre not growing as fast.

imiric 5y ago

It's like there's a pattern of behavior here that needs a more generic solution?

BitwiseFool 5y ago

Big Tech is the only one that actually competes with Journalism's business model. Facebook and Google destroyed media outlets' hold on advertising and disseminating information.

ceilingcorner 5y ago
Ding ding ding. We have a winner. In a democracy, the media has all the real power. That’s why we’re seeing endless op-eds against tech.
pupppet 5y ago
>Big Tech is the only one that actually competes with Journalism's business model. A journalist can see reasonable success reporting important stories, big tech only sees success reporting popular stories. Let's not pretend they're doing the same job, journalists have a legitimate beef with big tech.