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Watching these two behemoths wrestle over the future of a space we all share, and wondering if they will need to loop in regulators on one side or another, conv
by zelon88 1y ago
Watching these two behemoths wrestle over the future of a space we all share, and wondering if they will need to loop in regulators on one side or another, convinces me that we shouldn't have gifted all of our digital infrastructure to just 2 companies. Inlcuding our economy, healthcare, government, and civil infrastructure. We've put all our eggs into only a couple of very greedy, impossible to audit baskets. We've really done this all to ourselves. We've raced ourselves all the way to the bottom.
- coldpie 1y agoAfter 50 years of effectively zero activity, we had some glimmers of anti-trust enforcement under the Biden admin. But then eggs were expensive in the summer of 2024, so we decided it was actually no problem for these half-dozen companies to control our speech and economy, and here we are.
- eddythompson80 1y agoIt used to be just Ma Bell
- philipallstar 1y ago> we shouldn't have gifted all of our digital infrastructure to just 2 companies We didn't. Just as we didn't gift all our chocolate-making infrastructure to Hershey's and Cadbury's.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoHey did you forget the market is consumer driven?
- imilk 1y agoThere is nothing stopping other CDN/DNS providers from implementing similar services and tools to what Cloudflare offers. Part of the reason CF has become so popular is because so many of their competitors don't offer nearly the same convenience for routine tasks & protection.