JD Vance's populist plans to break up Big Tech monopolies

The Blaze ^ | July 18, 2024 | Ethan Xu

[FreedomPoster]

Any one on Free Republic who hasn’t removed Google as a default search engine on every browser on every device they own, isn’t paying attention.

https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/

[ohioman]

JD is doing great. 99% of FR will ignore you.

[Carry_Okie]

In other words, just because you have a Yale law degree it doesn’t make you knowledgeable about the Constitution.

If you are including the 14^th Amendment's sneaky inclusion of corporations as "citizens of the United States," as "the Constitution" you might be correct. But I don't think you are. Sic:

Assuming the story is true, Vance is engaging in rabid leftism, and using the Commerce Clause in ways the Founders never intended.

Equine feces:

England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. and accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. it ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people. but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall, on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country. - Thomas Jefferson The founders knew enough about the behavior of globalist corporations in the person of the Hudson Bay Company, the Virginia Comany, and ilk to minimize the total power they could wield by limiting their reach to the jurisdictions of the 13 States. True Federalism was the anti-trust tool of that day. It was the 14^th Amendment that turned DC into one-stop shopping for political influence as a way to attract capital to pay our debts and rebuild the nation after the Civil War, turning those corporate interests loose on the treasures of the American West.

[Kazan]

Bottom line, there is no enumerated power in the Constitution granting leftists or alleged conservative bureaucrats the ability to break-up companies.

So, you'd apply those comments to Ronald Reagan?

How Ronald Reagan’s Record Could Influence Modern Internet Monopolies

Reagan’s Record of Breaking Up Monopolies

The mobile internet monopoly also discourages other businesses from entering the fray, which runs counter to the notion of a free economy, in which competition fuels growth. The lack of competing businesses means fewer jobs, which not only affects Americans’ bottom lines but also trickles down into a lack of investment in the economy.

So how can the mobile internet monopoly best be addressed? Looking to the past is one way to find solutions. For Ronald Reagan, breaking monopolies up was a cornerstone of his economic policies. Shortly after he took office, in January 1982, the nation saw the dissolution of one of its most long-time monopolies. The federal government had sued Bell Systems for antitrust violations, resulting in a settlement that broke up the AT&T telephone monopoly, at the time the largest private company in the world.

Reagan instituted a new method for federal review of proposed corporate mergers, which could be one area revisited to address today’s mobile Internet monopoly. Reagan saw the need for getting ahead of potential monopolies by circumventing potential problem areas at the start. Reviewing and updating merger guidelines to specifically address the realities of today’s Internet-powered age can put the nation one step closer to reducing monopolies and giving economic freedom back to the American people.

[DesertRhino]

These international companies do everything they can to destroy American freedom, and the minute you try to do anything about it, they wrap them selves in the flag and suddenly there patriotic? Not buying.

[DesertRhino]

The bottom line, big tech has done far more to deserve antitrust action than standard oil ever dreamed of. If Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and meta-are not monopolies, we might as well get rid of the law regarding monopolies.

It’s just a guilty pleasure that the people who despise America more than anything should face the music. And all of them have massively gained power and influence by their fascist partnership with government.

[ProgressingAmerica]

This is not “populism”.

This is statist progressivism. It’s anti-capitalism plain and simple. We have been through this before and it is sad that this is what it comes down to.

The 10 friendliest words in the English language are “I’m from the federal government and I am here to help.”

[ProgressingAmerica]

"In other words, just because you have a Yale law degree it doesn’t make you knowledgeable about the Constitution."

This is exactly right. We have a little too many people here at Free Republic who are covetous of their beloved big government and it is a little both scary and shocking to discover.

We simply do not need to have our big daddy love-of-our-lives government go down the path of centralized planning.

I often advocate that we as conservatives need to get the hell off of these big tech platforms - and start using Linux. Linux on our computers, and Linux on our cell phones.

We can absolutely, on our own, without big beloved government, defeat these big tech companies. But for some strange reason, we all refuse to do our jobs. We refuse to get active. So big tech gets bigger and nobody does a thing about it and then they attack us. Then! Wow, we need government to save us.

It's just plain lazy.

Stop with the big tech platforms from Google Apple and Microsoft. What the heck.

It is NOT that difficult to give these tech companies the Bud Light'ing that they deserve. I just don't know why, everybody around here refuses and embracing big-God government is the easier route for lazy bums.

Other than lazy I just don't know what it is that prevents a Bud Light'ing of Big Tech. I just do not understand. It both scares me and infurates me that any of us would embrace big government. It is so insulting.

[nonliberal]

Trust busting Silicon Valley would be one of the best things Trump can do to save the country.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"It comes down to a simple question - is the free market, as it currently exists - capable of destroying a Facebook or a Google if they act to limit competition?"

Yes, the answer is yes.

It requires us to do our jobs. The way to put an end to big tech is to embrace little tech. So far there is a refusal to do that. I don't know why, but its there.

[desertfreedom765]

“We can absolutely, on our own, without big beloved government, defeat these big tech companies. “

Never happen.

It took Elon Musk 44 billion dollars to restore a semblance of free speech to the world.

How did Parler, truth social, gab work out?

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

GETTR is actually very successful AND Telegram is also very successful!! I actually love Telegram!!

[desertfreedom765]

How much influence on the election or society do you think those platforms have compared to Google or Facebook?

1/100th, 1/1000th?

[thegagline]

The paucity of conservatives on this site is astonishing. DoodleBob and Mr. Jeeves are conservatives.

[Mr. Jeeves]

FR has gone “populist” - few posters really want to limit government power any more, they just want to turn things around and use that power to smite their enemies, the way the Left does.

[nonliberal]

Because those are the rules now and the left is susceptible to ruthlessly exercised power. If these businesses are going to advocate socialism, let’s give it to them good and hard.

Under a capitalist system, the conservatism of Reagan was effective. That is no longer the reality we live in. We need to accept that and adapt.

[dfwgator]

Name your poison: Do you want high government power, or high oligarch power? They are distinctions without a difference.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Facebook is obsolete as far as I am concerned, the ONLY people using FB now are seniors!! TIC TOC is HUGE and as far as I can see they are not censoring content, there are THOUSANDS of videos there of Trump supporters of ALL races a whole lot of black women and men and they are NOT buying this Kamala crap!! FB is becoming just like the MSM obsolete!! You would be surprised how many conservative channels there are on Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, I stay as far away from Google as possible, had an Android phone and got rid of it because there was NO WAY around Google!! Elon buying X was a HUGE God send AND it is privately owned now he tells everyone to go pound sand he has enough money to give them all the middle finger!! We are making HUGE STRIDES and the best part is the MSM has become irrelevant dying on the media vine!! I am 72 years old and I have not watched a news broadcast in probably 15 years!! The younger generations get their information from Tic Toc and X!!!

[thegagline]

“ use that power to smite their enemies, the way the Left does.”

Hence the amount of zotting that goes on around here.

[Brilliant]

I’m ok with breaking up the social media companies. We don’t need them anyway. I would not touch the rest of it.