Standard Oil destroyed competitors by ruthlessly cutting costs and selling oil products more cheaply. As lobbyists, of course they played the government where they could, but the government ate the oil business in the end. That made it more regulated, inefficient, expensive, and vulnerable to Middle East terrorists and dictators. Thank God for fracking, which despite interference by the states is re-setting the table.
But Trump could start his own platform, or rather, have his son do so. It's the only way out of this situation. Government involvement corrupts, and businesses are very willing to use government corruption to their advantage. That's why the Deep State exists to begin with.
I don't understand the alarm at competing platforms. People have been getting infuriated at youtube and Gargle for a whole range of reasons. Another platform would have a massive publicity boost, and obviously the market is huge--bigger than youtube or its masters at Google can handle.
Sure. Trump could start his own app. Then later it will be removed from the (2) app stores for hate speech or some such nonsense. Again, the idea that we can create our own Facebook and google is a day dream. They have billions of users and billions of dollars to buy up the competition.
The market isn’t going to fix this problem. And the progressive-corportist alliance that firmly controls “both” parties will make sure of it. They benefit greatly from Big Tech assaulting conservatives and have no incentive to stop it.
We need a new bill of rights for the internet age. Any speech that isn’t blatantly illegal “yelling fire in a movie theater, etc.” must be allowed by big tech.