The threat that we will have a scary Chinese internet if we attempt to restrict anything about the Big Five tech companies is their cynical ploy to avoid regulation. The reality is we might just have American innovation again, long presumed deadhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-future-of-the-internet-could-be-chinese-and-authoritarian-warns-senate-foreign-relations-report/2020/07/21/e6b5092c-ca4a-11ea-99b0-8426e26d203b_story.html …
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One reason you haven't seem much new come out in the tech world in the last 5 years is that a combination of VC casino culture and oppressive monopoly has made it impossible for smaller companies to compete with lavishly funded giants. I know that's why I haven't innovated!
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The argument the tech oligopoly uses is like saying that we'll all end up watching Chinese state propaganda beamed into our homes from Beijing if Comcast can't have a monopoly on residential cable. It's risible, but the legislators listening to this dreck are bought and paid for
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