The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.
Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The rise of the corporate state has grave political consequences, as we saw in Italy and Germany in the early part of the twentieth century. Antitrust laws not only regulate and control the marketplace. They also serve as bulwarks to protect democracy. And now that they are gone, now that we have a state run by and on behalf of corporations, we mus
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Are Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon too powerful? Should they be broken up?
Jessica Lessin • Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation
That there are two philosophies does not necessarily mean that one is right and one is wrong: the reality is we need both. Some problems are best solved by human ingenuity, enabled by the likes of Microsoft and Apple; others by collective action. That, though, gets at why Google and Facebook are fundamentally more dangerous: collective ac
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