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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Howard Beale said it better....
“We’re In a Lot of Trouble!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvT_qEZJf8
I wonder if Big toilet paper is sustainable.
She can expect Occasional support from users of Cortex ARM processors. But there goes the big money.
She’s correct about this. Trump likely agrees.
But her solution would be government control of the Internet.
Growth is not sustainable at recent rates.
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.
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.
She obviously learned so much tending bar
How many expensive things does she own from big tech?
Commies cant hide hypocrisy anymore, too much is recorded and peopld see the hypocrisy.
That is probably another good trait of socialism. If people ain’t eating then they don’t need Tp and they ain’t polluting.
Like letting go of the internet.
Now there was an idea we’ll be paying for for the next few centuries.
$$$$ 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.
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.
She wants to be a dictator really bad.
This time, she’s right.
AOC probably thinks that the tech giants are too conservative, or too detached from control by people like herself.
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