Don’t worry, the tech companies will spread some chicken scratch around to the right campaigns and PACs and all will continue as normal................
The ATT break up did work well for consumers.
Well, first of all, it was illegal for AT&T to discriminate or cut off phone service to anyone for political reasons. Facebook and social media does so with impunity while using government infrastructure and subsidies to violate people’s rights.
Free markets doesn’t mean supporting plutocracy.
“Because breaking up AT&T worked so well?”
It was the best antitrust action the government ever took.
It’s why we have the internet and get to philosophize on this site.
Quote: “Why? Because breaking up AT&T worked so well?”
ATT wasn’t deciding whether or not to provide full service dependent upon your political views. What AppleFacebookTwitterAmazon are doing is akin to if ATT had said “Joe is a conservative, so we’ll only allow a small portion (if any) of Joe’s calls to go through”