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Great read and man month of September great with these. I hope we win them all.
congress is … on it, in one of the most surprising twists of the 21st century https://www.lee.senate.gov/2023/3/the-america-act
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A consensus has very rapidly formed that reagan-era deregulation of monopolies, especially in big tech, is outmoded. I don’t trust the republican’s position here (it seems like they want to punish big tech companies for insufficient fealty to republican causes) but in at least the hands-across-the-aisle version, everyone agrees that facebook and google have to go
Very interesting read.! Always eye-opening to get the perspective of someone that is so focused on a specific angle. Like so many things lately, this takeaway at the end is both encouraging and simultaneously terrifying:
The irony of this remarkable month of antitrust activity is that it’s both astonishing, far more bigger [sic] than anything anyone expected, yet it’s also only a tiny fraction of what is necessary to reverse the damage monopolists have done to our society.
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I love posting stuff from guys like these, it always a treat to see people’s reactions to their stuff
Makes sense to me, as the big companies approach enshittification at the same time, the inevitable pushback against them arrive near the same time as well.
