Tyler Cowen argues that shattering Facebook would free things up, a lot (which would be bad for some reason).https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/facebook-big-tech-antitrust-breakup-mistake.html …
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competitive availability of user data inherited from the mothership is the part that scares me most about breaking up the central adveillance corps. somehow there's an unspoken expectation that an actual breakup wouldn't change that dynamic of what's currently a guarded monopoly.
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"As for privacy, these smaller Facebook replacements would be more susceptible to hacks, foreign surveillance and infiltration, and external manipulation—the real dangers to our privacy and well-being." doesn't even dance around the issue, it fails to recognize that there is one.
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Cowen as Straussian doesn't fly for me most of the time, but occasionally I can see it.
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Ain't that ashame. Government(public Corp.) hates the thought of anything decentralized. Monopolies hate competition.
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