Google and Facebook are monopolists by any measure. Their market share and control of their respective industries are well beyond anything that Rockefeller, Gould or Carnegie controlled at the start of the “progressive era.”
Rather than being penalized and broken up, they are embraced by our massive, controlling, surveillance nanny-state.
Apple--Steve Jobs (about six months from his passing)
Cisco Systems--John Chambers
Facebook--Mark Zuckerberg
Google--Eric Schmidt (about to step down as Google CEO)
Netflix--Reed Hastings
Oracle Systems--Larry Ellison
Twitter--then-CEO Dick Costolo
Yahoo!--then-CEO Carol Bartz
Obama's most trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, was also in attendance at that dinner. We don't know what was said at that dinner, but one now really wonders did these eight companies--along with Microsoft--agree to a "gentlemen's agreement" to censor the political Right by tweaking search and discovery algorithms with the personal approval of President Obama. If true, then all nine companies could be defendants in a First Amendment free speech lawsuit, since this censorship was done with approval of the US government.