All hail the social media industrial complex
Over the past decade and a half, social media platforms have been instrumental in empowering public discourse.
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Over the past decade and a half, social media platforms have been instrumental in empowering public discourse.
Anti-competitive that we overcome by those companies and these companies shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against sellers on their platform without actually showing that there is some real consumer benefit to doing it. so we definitely need stronger antitrust laws. >> but how do you do it? what i don't understand, fine, if you were to break google and youtube up, what would that do? i'm not sure i understand -- you know, the nature of the digital economy is that the first mover has huge advantages and the person who establishes the standard kind of everybody goes to. the reason we use goog...
Allowed to discriminate against sellers on their platform without actually showing that there is some real consumer benefit to doing it. so we definitely need stronger antitrust laws. >> but how do you do it? what i don't understand, fine, if you were to break google and youtube up, what would that do? i'm not sure i understand -- you know, the nature of the digital economy is that the first mover has huge advantages and the person who establishes the standard kind of everybody goes to. the reason we use google is because everybody else uses it and so the search results are much better because...
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