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"Today's big tech companies have [too much power over] our economy, our society, and our democracy," wrote Warren in a blog post. "They've bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation."
Warren said that big tech companies use mergers to swallow competition and sell products on their own e-commerce platforms, which hurt smaller businesses' opportunities to succeed. Weak antitrust enforcement also resulted in "a dramatic reduction" in competition and innovation in the tech industry, according to Warren's blog post.
With conservative voices decrying Big Tech censorship, internet activists decrying privacy violations, and now Senator Warren calling for outright dismemberment, Big Tech might be in for a rocky stretch of road.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:11AM (8 children)
<cynical>Guess who turned her down for contributions to her campaign.</cynical>
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:32AM (7 children)
It's the opposite, actually. She doesn't accept Corporate PAC money. [opensecrets.org]
(Score: 2) by Lester on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:49AM (1 child)
So she is going to be marginal contender.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:08AM
No, there's a few of them including Bernie Sanders. And he's rolling in dough.
I hate to say "crowdfunding" but crap-tons of small-dollar donations is the new hotness amongst the liberals.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:17PM (4 children)
Doesn't make her idea any better. Google/Facebook/Amazon cannot interfere with your internet access. They are in no way a monopoly. All their power was given to them by the users. We can turn our backs, and suffer brief minor inconvenience at the most, and then we will produce a replacement.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday March 11 2019, @03:21PM (3 children)
They kinda can, actually. Try blocking recaptcha sometime and see how many websites you can still log in to...not many of them IME.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 11 2019, @09:03PM (2 children)
It is the ISP that prohibits us from hosting our own websites and mail servers etc, and limits our upload bandwidth, not Google/Facebook/Amazon. The idea is to send the business to them, unopposed.
We need to make the internet like the telephone. Right now we are letting the ISP make it into the television with one way communication. There is insufficient demand for symmetry
Attacking Google/Facebook/Amazon is a distraction, if not outright extortion for more "campaign" financing. It completely overlooks the real problem, probably intentionally, for all the obvious reasons.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @11:22AM (1 child)
I run my own email server out of my living room. Had a diaspora* pod too, but that got a bit lonely ;) My YaCy experiments haven't been going so well though (but that's more an issue with the software than the network...would probably work better if I could get it to run for more than a day or two without locking up or crashing and corrupting the configs...)
Of course, now that I think about it, I've got a symmetric connection too...75mbps both ways. But if you need that to run a mail server you're doing something very wrong...
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:12PM
75mbps both ways. But if you need that to run a mail server you're doing something very wrong...
Mail server, file server, streaming server, *sigh* everything but the beer and hotdog....
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..