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> Governments want to regulate big tech, not break it up. Correct. And I think they would rather do the former, but consider the latter a "nuclear option". In
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Governments want to regulate big tech, not break it up.
Correct. And I think they would rather do the former, but consider the
latter a "nuclear option". In either case though, my key point is that
they don't understand the problem. It is much more complex than a
simple, traditional economic model of ownership as power. That's what
the project is aimed at determining and explaining.
- specialist 4y ago> ...[govt] don't understand the problem James Scott's Seeing Like a State argues this is the norm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State If I were an entity trying to regulate social media, I'd probably spend less time fully understanding and emphasize compelling the medias to behave in an approved manner. For better or worse.