For Trump, Trustbusting isn’t Just an Option

Note to former president Donald J. Trump: Time to channel a fellow New Yorker, a Roosevelt, no less. That’s the Oyster Bay Roosevelt, Teddy. Trustbusting needs to be a cornerstone of your America First agenda -- the agenda that’s going to return you to the White House in 2024.

In term Number One, President Trump was on track to bust up free speech loathing, oligarchy bent Big Tech outfits. This Sunday at CPAC, Trump plans to speak about “a vision where the Big Tech monopoly is dismantled and free speech and free expression and free thought can reign,” says Jason Miller, a key advisor to the ex-president. In the states, there’s currently momentum toward antitrust action against Google and Facebook. Federal lawsuits started during Trump’s term are still in play.

We’ll see if the Biden administration continues to pursue lawsuits and actions against its Big Tech allies. If the last four years are any indication, Democrats will fix it so that their cronies wiggle off hooks. It’s only uppity Republicans and patriots who are on the receiving end of “justice.”

The issue with free speech is not only Big Tech, but also Big Media. Media is basically all owned by 6 companies, all sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party.

Curious Why US News Networks Are Supportive of Chinese Government? Just Look at the Corporate Ownership

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3838407/posts

"Trust busting" big media is a stupid idea across multiple levels.

First, anti-trust law is based on a bastardized reading of the Commerce Clause. If conservatives want to be principled, then they should avoid this weaponized legal twisting.

Second, every contemporary "trust busting" attempt by the govt in technology is inefficient vs the free market. Remember the browser wars? Netscape whined about IE. Now IE is a has-been, and Chrome and Safari are seeing alternatives like Brave eat into their market share. By the time the legal machinery gets around to it, big tech will be a shell of its former self.

Third, if freedom-loving people would simply fire FB, Twitter and not use Google etc then they'd start to experience falling share prices, shareholder suits and so on. Indeed, why should the govt intervene when 70MM+ Trump voters won't delete their Facebook profile because then Aunt Millie can't see pix of the kids eating mud?

Finally, and related to all of the the above, do you really think, that THE GOVERNMENT, that edifice that brings you the DMV, can efficiently break-up companies? Mark my word...if you sanction this activity, they'll wind up not busting up any firms but granting big tech a statutory monopoly and a legal shield against privacy lawsuits.

If you’d have asked me even just 5 or 6 years ago weather I supported breaking up the big tech strangle hold on their markets, I’d have said no, because it just opens to the door to foreign competitors to win.

They may still win the long game, but silicon valley is shooting themselves in the foot. If they are not the better of two evils, they had better double down on their bet that democrats can rig elections from here on out.

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