Posted on 04/20/2021 4:55:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
For capitalism to survive, monopolies must be busted or not allowed to form.
Hardly a progressive agenda.
Apple, Google, and Amazon are already working on the side of Beijing, against the United States, by promoting Critical Race Theory.
Lust for power sucks in most anyone and everyone susceptible to such.
What is Moore’s solution to cancerous Facebook, Twitter, Amazon etc, eating up our freedom?
Stephen Moore is an open borders, globalist hack. Just saying.
You forgot the barf alert
Stephen Moore, a creature of the Chamber of Commerce, demonstrates again why Donald J Trump wouldn’t let him near his administration with a 10’ pole.
Where’s he finding $300 iPhones? The iPhone SE is $399 from Verizon and that’s with a 2 year contract and monthly payments.
That said, I agree with the writer’s premise, but there are problems with how big tech is operating. We need to have an honest discussion not so much about monopoly but about censorship. If you’re going to be a global tech giant, you should be held to the human rights standards of your home country. That includes freedom of speech, in the case of American tech leaders. This problem isn’t going away via “trust busting.”
So let Moore explain how Amazon, Google and Apple stomped Parler and Gab almost out of existence, while telling us that Biden didnt steal the Presidency.
Tyranny is always a private thing.
Agreed. Stupid article.
Monopolies are evil because they buy and own governments like ours. Period.
I’m a free-market capitalist, and Sen. Hawley is 100% correct in pursuing this antitrust agenda.
What “Republicans” like Steve Moore never understood is that unrestrained corporations are just as much of a threat to our freedom and liberties as is unrestrained government
Monopolies crush the free market. Its not them being monopolies that is the problem, it’s their natural instinct to create an anti-competive environment.
The large firms are not pushing back on cancel culture, tech firms are absolutely facilitating it. As a result of cancel culture very unhelpfully coming at the same time that we are in a major disruption of jobs, more people are going to have to open small businesses to survive. Small businesses foster innovation as well as helping to keep people fed. Therefore, those small businesses should have protection from predation by large monopolistic firms.
I have no doubt that Amazon will find a way to profit on serving the needs of small business rather than running them all out of business.
Not so sure about the merger part of it which seems a little arbitrary.
The reason I am paying $150 a month instead of $600 a month for my two business phone lines is because AT&T was broken up.
Big tech has convinced the left to embrace cancel culture, because as long as the leftie focus is there, the lefties will let big tech run wild.
It’s a form of demagoguery.
Even worse; all these tech billionaires vote Democrat, and donate bales of money to far-left causes. I think there needs to be a law limiting how large companies can get. Look at GE; it makes more money than half the countries on the planet. And pays no taxes. It spends thousands of dollars an hour, 24/7/365, lobbying every level of government for tax breaks, loopholes, and exemptions. They don’t even pay dividends, and holds pieces of so many other corporations that they make more money when GE fails than they do when it succeeds. And NONE of its products are made in the US anymore.
I have no sympathy for any of them. Break them up, tax them so much they can’t bribe the local dog-catcher for all I care.
You are absolutely right
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