"If ever any group had it coming, it’s the giants of the tech industry." https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-resistance-we-need-the-trump-administration-gears-up-to-trust-bust-the-tech-giants … ...
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... Taking the Federal chain-saw to Big Tech would bring so much cross-partisan applause I'm finding it hard to see it not happening.
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... After a massive carve-up, Woke Capital would look like a bad bet that the Left could be seduced by PR, while the Right was securely in the bag. ...
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... Instead -- by alienating everybody except Left Libertarians (a demographic rounding-error) -- it left Big Tech without any friends. ...
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... Whatever you think of trust-busting, it's historically left everyone feeling pretty good afterwards. Can't think of any case when dismantling a mega-corporation resulted in much grief. ...
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... I still can't quite approve, so I'll avert my gaze as the oxy-acetylene torches light up, and whistle something wistful about burning rainbows.
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A carve-up seems far less objectionable than increased regulatory oversight. There's also the hard Gnon-point that anything unable to keep itself out of the saw-mill gets sawed. ...
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... Be nice, frankly, to see Big Capital thinking of governments as ax-murdering maniacs rather than as their buddies in public administration.
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