Remember the trust busting and Standard Oil. Businessmen are not free-market idealists, they are really monopolists who seek to destroy the competition, and then screw the consumer. Our system works while you have competition, but once it is eliminated, price rises, and product quality deteriorates - and consumer choice is thrown out the window. (It approaches living in a communist state, where news and consumer goods all come from the same nasty place.)
Google has run newspapers out of business, and has become the unelected backbone of the internet.
They spy on every aspect of your life and keep files and sell data, possibly to foreign entities. They block publications like Forbes, if they seek to write negative articles about Google. Living, breathing, Soviet censorship!
Every marketing executive will tell you that you can bury a dead body on page 2 of a Google search because no one ever goes there. In the daily consumer searches, Google lists their companies first, and destroys the competition, much like John D Rockefeller did to smaller independent oil companies. JDR would offer to buy the company and when they refused he would prevent them from buying containers to move their oil, or block market access, and choke them out of business. Google is doing that. Google has paid huge fines in Europe.
The power of computers has accelerated this problem. Google is the government that no one has elected, they control what you see and hear, and can heavily influence what you think. They can block any point of view which can influence your point of view. Now this is done a million times a second, 24 hours a day. It is done by Big Tech, who are very left leaning California liberals, who hate conservatives and Republicans, and will do anything in their power to diminish their opinions and arguments. It is not so much anymore a question of finding an alternative newspaper to read like in the 90’s. It is far more intrusive and insidious than that. They are in the search engine, they are in the “fresh” lists that you think you are reading to get an independent point of view. But they have blacklists that bar many conservative opinions and articles.
We are living in Communist China - and they openly control their internet, but in a much creepier fashion, our censorship control is unseen. What you think you read, is what they want you to read, and they thrown millions of hazards in the way before you can find the truth.
They are aligned heavily with the Democrat Party, and will do everything in their power to advance a leftist ideology. That kind of monopoly control cannot be tolerated. Once the Democrats take power, they will entrench these leftist Big Tech monopolies so that they can never be undone. They will be mainlining their version of Pravda to every citizen in the country. Where the internet was once a symbol of freedom, it will become a tool of oppression.
Break them up, and scatter them to the wind.
Which is why public schools are failures.
I hear you and I share the concerns. I ask again out of ignorance, what law is to be used to break them up? Would like to hear from any FReeper attorney types on this.