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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by wittycardio on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:01PM (#27636225)
Google and Facebook are amongst the most important sponsors of scientific research in the world. Why would you want to destroy that. The internet is a winner take all industry , all things considered the current winners are pretty good. Why ruin that for narrow political goals
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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by iammisc on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:32PM (#27636534)
> all things considered the current winners are pretty good

Quite literally, the representatives of >50% of the country disagree with you.

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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by wittycardio on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:05PM (#27636831)
Yeah for the political reasons outlined by the original posters. I happen to think those are bad reasons , me being in the minority does not necessarily make me wrong
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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by dnissley on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:51PM (#27636709)
How much consideration do you think the average representative put into their decision?
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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by iammisc on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:39PM (#27637573)
Quite a bit I'd imagine. Many have been talking about this for months
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Re:Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech? by dnissley on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:08PM (#27638089)
Extraordinary
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