Watching Big Tech CEOs on C-SPAN now.
Zuckerberg is setting a world record for blinking. Isn’t that a “Tell” for lying?
Oddly enough, I agree with both the Republicans and the RATs so far, who are coming at the CEOs from totally different angles.
The Republicans are zeroing in on UNLAWFUL CENSORING of Republican, conservative and pro-Trump content.
The RATs are going after the antitrust issue, and I think they have Google at least dead-to-rights on this, given their explicit use of their power as a both a “Bottleneck” supplier (”Vertical” relationship) and a direct competitor (”Horizontal” relationship) of many other companies, especially competitive websites.
My expectation is that antitrust law will bring increasing pressure on Google over the next several years, and rightly so.
Yes, I am 100% capitalist; but, monopolies actually destroy capitalism, which is BASED ON COMPETITION.
On the Censoring of Republicans, I think the FCC may have something to say about it soon.
FTC should have put a stop to Bezos a long time ago on anti-trust grounds.
For the string pullers, attributing a political philosophy is naive. To them, there is only power, and the will to use it. If the government will do it, they'll use the government. If the corporations will do it, they'll use the corporations. They view them as different tools, like hammers and prybars.
The corporations use environmental groups to push legislation through the government that make it too expensive for anyone except a large corporation to navigate the regulations.