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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 takyon on Saturday March 09 2019, @01:20AM (10 children)
Are you suggesting people run search engines, Mastodon instances, etc. on home servers?
You can duplicate some functions but Google and Facebook have access to exabytes of storage, petabytes of RAM, exaflops of computing, etc. They are also building their own undersea cables to move data around, and can duplicate data to centers all over the world to speed up access.
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(Score: 2) by Lester on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:47AM (7 children)
Many of ISP customers use google, facebook etc, if the ISP give preference to traffic from/to this companies, the overall perception of most of its customers is "this ISP has a fast internet". So this big players have more traffic, so they earn more money, so they can buy better facilities, so they are faster, so more people want to use their services, so ISPs give preference to this companies: Any competition is destroyed.
In Spain, mobile companies offer an amount of GB of traffic a month, but data used for Whatsapp is free. Sure whatsapp is THE instant message service, the app everybody has. But with such offer they have made even more difficult to enter a new player.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @05:53AM (2 children)
WTF are people instant messaging each other, that they would need to worry about hitting a transfer cap? Whole movies?
(Score: 2) by Lester on Saturday March 09 2019, @06:12PM (1 child)
Yes, teenagers send a lot of stupid videos and many, many photos by whatsapp. In addtion, an IM that should be a just few bytes (at least according to its origins, jabber) now sends metrics and God and Zuckerberg know what.
But that's not the problem. The problem is facebook APP, Instagram APP, streaming videos plus weather applet, games with its advertisings that send nobody knows what. All them drain the bandwidth but the important part is ... magically Whatsapp still works.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 09 2019, @06:56PM
Whatsapp still works.
Barely!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:37AM (3 children)
If only there was a concept of Network Neutrality we could rally behind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:04PM (2 children)
There is. It's called "dumb pipe", like a phone line. No DHCP, no DNS. You do P2P, just like the phone line. You build/buy your own damn firewall. Bandwidth is capped by wire gauge and simple multiplexing. Anything less is not neutral.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday March 10 2019, @03:45AM (1 child)
But once you've "multiplexed" a whole neighborhood of subscribers onto one cell tower, how many of those subscribers will be able to watch the video services to which they subscribe at the same time?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @06:54PM
You don't oversell your capacity. You have to put up a "fatter" pipe. And you develop alternative routing, don't use just a single path. You know, one of those "neural" things. We should make the network more ad hoc so we don't need big towers maintained by big companies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:13PM
"Are you suggesting people run search engines, Mastodon instances, etc. on home servers?"
yes. we need p2p anon apps not centralized company run slave check in stations.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:14PM
That sounds cool. I demand my exabyte symmetry with Google and Facebook! Demand, I say! And where's my hundreds of datacenters?!