>It's fashionable in some corners to pontificate on breaking up Big Tech these days. [...] >As an aside, it'd be foolish to engage in killing our own golden g

>It's fashionable in some corners to pontificate on breaking up Big Tech these days. [...] >As an aside, it'd be foolish to engage in killing our own golden geese while Chinese competitors rise in influence Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG (including Amazon) and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesla, and the Ivy League), that they are in the United States. That doesn't mean I approve of everything they do. That doesn't mean I can't or won't decry their putting thumbs on scales toward a certain type of bien-pensant ideology. That does mean that, overall, I am very, very glad that they are American instead of Russian, Chinese, or even British, French, or German.