I recall the Netscape vs Explorer fights in the mid-1990s, with demands for Microsoft to be broken up. They weren't, firms innovated, and now we have a multitude of browser AND O/S options.
It is curious that the same apparatus that can't balance its budget, is investigating Trump over Russian election interference, mangles health care delivery, is peopled with scores of Deep Staters, and hosts a plethora of other errors, is suddenly viewed as a necessary and benevolent savor against FB et al.
If we play with fire, we shouldn't cry when we get burned. Thanks for listening.
I hear you but that is a should, not a would. In other words we *should* take organized torches and pitchforks action but we probably won’t. More likely we will just grumble and hope the market provides an alternative. That’s basically how the Microsoft/Netscape thing played out. The question is do we have the luxury of waiting this time and will the market really come through for us. Also, I don’t think anyone loves the idea of enlisting Leviathan to help out. Instead it’s seen as the less bad option compared to waiting and letting the left box us in.