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Re:Cal Newport: It's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly by antonvs on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:06PM (#38690130)
With problems like this, the path from identifying the problem to identifying concrete steps to address it is not necessarily trivial. It also ideally involves society as a whole.

As such, discussion of the nature of the problem and broad-strokes ideas about how it might be addressed - e.g. "techno-selectionism" - can be an important part of the process of improving the situation.

As for your proposed solution, breakups of companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and probably quite a few more, is certainly one potentially promising possibility.

Re:Cal Newport: It's Time to Dismantle the Technopoly by ParseItAgainSam on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:32PM (#38690300)
Even short of breaking them up, I would love to see more scrutiny of acquisitions. The buy all your disruptors to kill them would be good for everyone, except maybe VCs