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Ocasio-Cortez calls Big Tech giants' dominance 'unsustainable'
WSLS ^ | 1/27/19 | DONIE O'SULLIVAN, GREGORY KRIEG

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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To: Libloather

61 posted on 01/27/2019 3:23:00 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Tax-chick

Howard Beale said it better....

“We’re In a Lot of Trouble!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvT_qEZJf8


62 posted on 01/27/2019 3:23:50 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather
This woman goes from bartender to demanding everyone else’s money. She needs to get some skills and learn to provide for herself.
63 posted on 01/27/2019 3:24:50 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: DaxtonBrown

I wonder if Big toilet paper is sustainable.


64 posted on 01/27/2019 3:25:59 PM PST by taterjay
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
She can expect Occasional support from users of Cortex ARM processors. But there goes the big money.

65 posted on 01/27/2019 3:27:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: old-ager
> 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.

But her solution would be government control of the Internet.

66 posted on 01/27/2019 3:28:48 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: taterjay

Growth is not sustainable at recent rates.


67 posted on 01/27/2019 3:28:56 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Libloather

Why the heck does anybody care what this non-achieving, underemployed, dumb chit says about anything? She never actually tried to succeed in the real world, but did college student jobs long after she graduated.

That said, remember that Schicklgruber, aka Hitler, had been expelled from Catholic school and then blamed the Jews because he couldn’t get into art school. He simply wasn’t good enough and already had an indifferent to bad academic record.

And neither Lenin nor Stalin in their pre-dicatator (pre name-change) phases were anything for a mother to boast about. So don’t underestimate the power of Occasional Cortex over the idiot class.


68 posted on 01/27/2019 3:30:32 PM PST by livius
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To: Richard Axtell

The ignorance part is right. I don’t think her youth is much of an excuse. I new that socialism sucked way before her age.


69 posted on 01/27/2019 3:30:49 PM PST by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Look, is it America that I see again?)
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To: Libloather

She obviously learned so much tending bar


70 posted on 01/27/2019 3:31:34 PM PST by wny
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To: Libloather

How many expensive things does she own from big tech?

Commies cant hide hypocrisy anymore, too much is recorded and peopld see the hypocrisy.


71 posted on 01/27/2019 3:31:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bert

That is probably another good trait of socialism. If people ain’t eating then they don’t need Tp and they ain’t polluting.


72 posted on 01/27/2019 3:32:01 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Libloather

Like letting go of the internet.

Now there was an idea we’ll be paying for for the next few centuries.


73 posted on 01/27/2019 3:34:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Libloather

$$$$ these left wing CEOs thinking they would gain protection from a political party have not gotten a clue. The whole China policy of paying bribes to shut down and nationalize competitors in CHina is going to be paid in hell. Marxists want only the most devoted vicious bank robbing murderers, and then some , distrusting them the same.


74 posted on 01/27/2019 3:35:52 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: Libloather
Pride.
Blind ambition.
Godless.
She’s just another little tin pot antichrist.
Right now, she is entertainment,later, she may run for President.
Now, that’s not an entertaining thought.
75 posted on 01/27/2019 3:36:30 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Libloather

Perhaps Ocasio-Cortez can be asked to give an example when socialism or any government owned entity ever created anything as innovative, productive and gratifying to the people that “Big Tech” has accomplished over the past twenty years.


76 posted on 01/27/2019 3:41:54 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Brilliant

She wants to be a dictator really bad.


77 posted on 01/27/2019 3:53:19 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Libloather

This time, she’s right.


78 posted on 01/27/2019 3:54:59 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Libloather

AOC probably thinks that the tech giants are too conservative, or too detached from control by people like herself.


79 posted on 01/27/2019 4:09:13 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: dfwgator
"I agree with her to a point, but I don’t think I would like her solution."

Exactly. Hers is a conservative-sounding critique, but I doubt very much that her "solution" will protect conservatives.
80 posted on 01/27/2019 4:11:01 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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