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Interesting op-ed piece by conservative pundit Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ. She advocates the breakup of Big Tech and regulating those companies like a public utility. She calls Zuck an “imperious twerp” and points out ways that Republicans have been cowed/bribed/lobbied into avoiding antitrust investigations. She’s always entertaining, if occasionally over the top.

Ivytalk wrote:Interesting op-ed piece by conservative pundit Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ. She advocates the breakup of Big Tech and regulating those companies like a public utility. She calls Zuck an “imperious twerp” and points out ways that Republicans have been cowed/bribed/lobbied into avoiding antitrust investigations. She’s always entertaining, if occasionally over the top.

It's fascinating that "Big Tech" is in the sights of Republicans for Anti-trust
while Big ISP is simultaneously being fostered, funded and fiercely protected by the same folks

Chizzang wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:Interesting op-ed piece by conservative pundit Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ. She advocates the breakup of Big Tech and regulating those companies like a public utility. She calls Zuck an “imperious twerp” and points out ways that Republicans have been cowed/bribed/lobbied into avoiding antitrust investigations. She’s always entertaining, if occasionally over the top.

It's fascinating that "Big Tech" is in the sights of Republicans for Anti-trust
while Big ISP is simultaneously being fostered, funded and fiercely protected by the same folks

Like all politicians, they're more interested in going after those that aren't on their side and protecting the ones that are.

You and I are on the same page as far as Comcast and the ISPs. Big Tech is interesting. I'm not sure who can and will compete with FB as they now stand but people are choosing to stop using it. It's a voluntary thing and breaking it up will not stop a determined and well-financed third party from using other platforms to influence people. Alphabet and Amazon are competing with each other more and more and I think that trend will continue. There is also more than likely a new technological innovation around the corner which will be the next big thing and render the antitrust argument against them moot.

I have to have an ISP to access the Internet including Facebook but I can do a lot of things without using Facebook, Alphabet or Amazon.

Chizzang wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:Interesting op-ed piece by conservative pundit Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ. She advocates the breakup of Big Tech and regulating those companies like a public utility. She calls Zuck an “imperious twerp” and points out ways that Republicans have been cowed/bribed/lobbied into avoiding antitrust investigations. She’s always entertaining, if occasionally over the top.

It's fascinating that "Big Tech" is in the sights of Republicans for Anti-trust
while Big ISP is simultaneously being fostered, funded and fiercely protected by the same folks

Chizzang wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:Interesting op-ed piece by conservative pundit Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ. She advocates the breakup of Big Tech and regulating those companies like a public utility. She calls Zuck an “imperious twerp” and points out ways that Republicans have been cowed/bribed/lobbied into avoiding antitrust investigations. She’s always entertaining, if occasionally over the top.

It's fascinating that "Big Tech" is in the sights of Republicans for Anti-trust
while Big ISP is simultaneously being fostered, funded and fiercely protected by the same folks

Support for Big ISP is pretty bipartisan is it not?


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CID1990 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:
It's fascinating that "Big Tech" is in the sights of Republicans for Anti-trust
while Big ISP is simultaneously being fostered, funded and fiercely protected by the same folks

Support for Big ISP is pretty bipartisan is it not?

I'm pretty sure you're kidding...
or maybe you haven't hear about this net neutrality thing

Chizzang wrote:

CID1990 wrote:
Support for Big ISP is pretty bipartisan is it not?

I'm pretty sure you're kidding...
or maybe you haven't hear about this net neutrality thing

Why are the Democrats still taking Comcast's money?

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips ... cycle=2016
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips ... cycle=2018

UNI88 wrote:

Chizzang wrote: I'm pretty sure you're kidding...
or maybe you haven't hear about this net neutrality thing

Why are the Democrats still taking Comcast's money?

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips ... cycle=2016
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips ... cycle=2018

Because it was there.

Duopoly whores.

Ivytalk wrote:

UNI88 wrote:
Why are the Democrats still taking Comcast's money?

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips ... cycle=2016
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips ... cycle=2018

Because it was there.

Duopoly whores.

Bingo..!
Politicians will take anybody's money
but only liberal states besides Alaska have fought the Net Neutrality repeal
there is not one conservative run state (besides Alaska) that has even bothered to pretend



Note:
Conservative politicians take money from Google and Facebook

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup ... cycle=2018

Chizzang wrote:

CID1990 wrote:
Support for Big ISP is pretty bipartisan is it not?

I'm pretty sure you're kidding...
or maybe you haven't hear about this net neutrality thing

So Big ISP is only in the pockets of Republicans?

That would be quite a feat - own just one party AND create a monopoly for itself


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CID1990 wrote:

Chizzang wrote: I'm pretty sure you're kidding...
or maybe you haven't hear about this net neutrality thing

So Big ISP is only in the pockets of Republicans?

That would be quite a feat - own just one party AND create a monopoly for itself

You really don't understand how this whole Net Neutrality thing happened do you

Chizzang wrote:

CID1990 wrote:
So Big ISP is only in the pockets of Republicans?

That would be quite a feat - own just one party AND create a monopoly for itself

You really don't understand how this whole Net Neutrality thing happened do you

Why don’t you tell us again about

Net Neutrality = Comcast control of bandwidth and pricing


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CID1990 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:
You really don't understand how this whole Net Neutrality thing happened do you

Why don’t you tell us again about

Net Neutrality = Comcast control of bandwidth and pricing

Because
TL/DR



and Orange man bad