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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: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:47PM
You haven't thought this through very thoroughly, have you?
Suppose there were no regulations--we call them "laws" where I come from--against things like theft, assault, or murder. Would you *truly* think yourself more free than if you didn't have to spend all your time worrying that someone stronger, sneakier, smarter, and/or better armed than you could at any time and for any reason and with no repercussions take everything from you up to and including your very life?
If you want to be a minarchist, that's fine. I've actually been described as "left-libertarian in exile," which seems fair to me, and so could sympathize with that. But remember Einstein's supposed maxim, "as simple as possible, and no simpler." The fewest rules up front does not necessarily translate to the most freedom, and in fact, is guaranteed not to given the capacity for people to take actions which curtail the freedom of others.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...