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> When a German citizen listens to German music released by a German record label, Google or Apple takes a cut and transfers it to America. Unless you are usin
by scarface_74 2y ago
> When a German citizen listens to German music released by a German record label, Google or Apple takes a cut and transfers it to America.
Unless you are using Apple Music or buying from iTunes. This isn’t true.
> Have you ever considered that so long as it's an American monopoly, bringing in fistfuls of cash in from abroad, there's no need to break up the goose that lays the golden egg?
And yet the Democrats tried to do exactly that and wondered why BigTech that was supportive of them until as recently as 2020 ran screaming to Trump.
No one outside of the tech bubble put anywhere in their priority stack to “break up BigTech”
- michaelt 2y ago> And yet the Democrats tried to do exactly that Some people among the Democrats said some things. Politicians say a lot of things. It's actions that count. And in terms of actions, there hasn't been any meaningful antitrust enforcement since the Clinton administration.
- scarface_74 2y agoLina Khan went after most of the BigTech companies. They also didn’t support American companies when it came to some of the craziness from mostly the EU.