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tribunemag.co.uk
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| | | | | The 'big five' tech giants - Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft - have extraordinary control over our lives. Regulating them isn't enough, they have to be brought under democratic public ownership. | |
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stratechery.com
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| | | | | A review of the potential antitrust cases against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon suggests that only Google is vulnerable. | |
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www.theverge.com
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| | | | | How big is too big? And when does a company become so big that the government is forced to step in and make it smaller? Politicians have been struggling with those questions for at least a hundred years. But as the latest generation of tech companies has taken shape, the questions are becoming more and more relevant to internet giants like Google and Facebook. There's a new movement in Washington to break up those companies, whether through a Justice Department lawsuit or an old-school appeal to the Sherman Antitrust Act. It's a struggle Microsoft fended off in the '90s, and it has only grown more urgent in the years since. As Amazon has taken a stranglehold of online retail, Jeff Bezos' company has started to attract antitrust attention as well, with figure... | |
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www.defenseone.com
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| | | International scientific collaboration is a great thing, but not when it is fueling a despotic superpower's oppression at home and belligerence abroad. | ||
