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Big Tech Is Spending Lots of Money to Make Antitrust Reform Seem Scary
- mark_l_watson 4y agoAnd why wouldn’t they - obviously in their best interests. Similar situation with what is probably the largest propaganda effort in the history of the world (in my opinion): Wall Street and corporations using their News assets (MSNBC, CNN, etc.) to push the big lie about how alternative political parties are so bad. Actually the history of this, starting with President Roosevelt’s Herculean effort against alternative political parties is fascinating stuff!
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoYeah, it's always really amusing that the HN crowd so readily gobbles up anti-trust propoganda while in the same breadth will bemoan the size and power of FAANGs. It's seems really easy to just get trapped in that mindset (I feel like I may even get some anti-union comments responding to this comment)
- commandlinefan 4y agoWell, we can think X is bad without thinking X should be against the law.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoThis is precisely the type of comment I was referring too, where the average HN reader has ingrained negative views of unionization, almost always stemming from weird online propaganda that is very difficult to pin to a source (I recall reddit having a lot of anti-collective sentiment). It almost doesn't matter if unions are legal/illegal once the average worker has been poison pilled with a negative perception of them though, because they are implicitly based on worker's trust
- feet 4y agoRegulations exist to prevent people and corporations for things we think are bad and harmful
- nickff 4y agoThere are many cases against increasing the number of 'significant' political parties. One is that from a game theory point of view, the increased number of political parties actually makes it easier to maintain a de-facto one-party system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Political_Survival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Political_Surviva...
- feet 4y agoWe already have a defacto one party system in the US
- LatteLazy 4y agoAnd legacy media is spilling a lot of ink to make it sounds like a good idea...
- thedrbrian 4y agohttps://archive.ph/ii4RE https://archive.ph/ii4RE