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  • jtb262

    It’s not giving people a platform that’s the problem. It’s when the social media platform becomes too powerful. When nation states are able to exploit social platforms to destabilize an entire country, that’s too big.

    The simple answer is that tech must be broken up so that free markets can keep them from becoming exploitable vulnerabilities. If there’s competition of platforms it will be harder to misinform masses. Likewise it will be harder amass a trove of data that makes technocrats gods. You won’t here Trump acolytes fight that.

    Further we must evolve from the defensive posture of fighting for data privacy and instead invent and regulate new means of data ownership. I suggest modernizing copyright and patent law.

    Amazon has to break up it’s data and consumer products.

    Alphabet must be broken apart.

    Facebook should be separated from Instagram and what’s app.

    • Fb is a nation state itself. It captures a large % of all human speech. That’s problematic, and Zucks ego is too.jtb26
    • Disagreed. Breaking up all USA's big tech companies would be a mess and push investment in tech offshore.inteliboy
    • Mergers should be held under far more scrutiny though. The fact that Facebook ate up instagram so easily was a joke.inteliboy
    • You could be right. They should all be more heavily regulated and fined fbybthe FTC at minimum for some of the behavior. It happened to MS and they’ve been finejtb26

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