Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ...
by JaimeThompson on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:55AM
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Should we allow chemical companies, oil companies, and power plants to regulate themselves? What about drug companies?
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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ...
by PorterDuff on Saturday September 14, 2019 @11:28AM
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The counter example is the way the Soviets dealt with chemicals, oil, power.
Personally, I think that the government vs. industry split becomes rather academic when you are speaking of monopolies, especially monopolies that spy on you. I expect that there's a slow motion merger into a GoogleFacebookMicrosoftApple.gov body with the companies acting as cabinet branches.