I'll take "reasons the American public shouldn't be averse to regulating FAANG" for 500, Mr. Trebek.
It really just makes me laugh. Five years ago half this site acted like DOJ cases against FAANG was surefire economic suicide. Now we're staring down one of the most corrupt admins since Tricky Dick, suffocating the economy with tariffs to help stabilize our poor megacorps. Can't have a competitive economy if you're not bailing out your industry leaders, can you?
It also seems to confirm that businesses like Meta, Apple and Google are nationally-integrated to the point that competition isn't even desirable to the fed. I won't speculate on the ramifications for international surveillance, but it does reinforce what we already know about lawful intercept and Apple/Google's crackdowns on user freedom.
The American tech industry's greatest weakness is the inability to call out a bad idea when they see it. China yoked us like an ox.
It really just makes me laugh. Five years ago half this site acted like DOJ cases against FAANG was surefire economic suicide. Now we're staring down one of the most corrupt admins since Tricky Dick, suffocating the economy with tariffs to help stabilize our poor megacorps. Can't have a competitive economy if you're not bailing out your industry leaders, can you?
It also seems to confirm that businesses like Meta, Apple and Google are nationally-integrated to the point that competition isn't even desirable to the fed. I won't speculate on the ramifications for international surveillance, but it does reinforce what we already know about lawful intercept and Apple/Google's crackdowns on user freedom.
The American tech industry's greatest weakness is the inability to call out a bad idea when they see it. China yoked us like an ox.