CNet:
"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: 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.