Posted on 01/27/2019 2:32:29 PM PST by Libloather
(CNN) - Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has quickly become one of Washington's most prolific social media users, but this weekend the New York freshman said Silicon Valley companies had too much power and that "the current monopoly trend is societally and economically unsustainable."
Ocasio-Cortez's comments came in the aftermath of layoffs at a number of number of news organizations, including BuzzFeed and HuffPost.
"The biggest threats to journalism right now are tech monopolies & concentration of ownership," she tweeted on Saturday, adding: "The fact of the matter is the current monopoly trend is societally & economically unsustainable. We can't simply accept the cliché that 'journalism is dying.' Journalism will only die if we choose not to fight for it - and if journalism dies, our democracy will, too."
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I'm guessing the socialist bartender would've voted for Commiecare. Just a hunch.
Hey, bartender, fix me a glass of ice water.
The only thing she mentioned that is proven to be unsustainable it Socialism. But that is way too obvious for a person as young and as ignorant as she to perceive.
Particularly with her in charge.
Wonder what the big wigs at Goggle, Fakebook, Twit, etc., who love to lick the boots of idiots like Occasional Cortex, think about this?
Probably that, as big financial contributors to these far-left nitwits, the tech millionaires and billionaires are supposed to be immune from criticism.
I wonder how much longer Occasional Cortex will be the darling of the techies.
Ocasio-Kotex is managing to get both left feet in her mouth. Let her spew ...
I agree with her to a point, but I don’t think I would like her solution.
The biggest threat to “journalism” today is the utter lack of journalism. Virtually all MSM “journalists” are little more than mouthpieces for the powers promoting socialist/fascist agenda. Real journalism at the national level is all but dead. All that is left is thinly veiled spin, bias, and propaganda. More and more, they don’t even bother with the thin veil. Journalism is dead or dying due to the actions of the journalists, not some nebulous “big tech” boogieman. But even there, blaming big tech, big oil, big XYZ... is a very socialist/fascist thing to do. Got to try to rile up the masses with emotion.
unsustainable - she learned a new word
> Silicon Valley companies had too much power and that “the current monopoly trend is societally and economically unsustainable.”
She’s correct about this. Trump likely agrees.
Uh huh. This “expert” has been office 5 minutes and all of a sudden she’s an expert on everything under the sun.
Amazing. Ludicrous but amazing.
Wonder how much money those guys dumped into AOC’s campaign.
“Journalism” died with Watergate.
AOC is right on this, but for the wrong reasons. Big Tech will fail because it is TOO socialist, not because it is a monopoly.
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