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I still
don’t understand Warren’s plan to regulate Amazon.
Store-brand shit being sold in the store
has existed for ages.....
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![]() 03/20/2019 at 21:40 |
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Yeah, Warren is my top choice, but the going after Amazon/Google/Faceb ook/Apple doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. She hasn’t done a good job identifying what the horrifying anti-competitive behavior is that needs correcting, or why it should apply to these tech giants, but not other large businesses (including those that spend a lot more on lobbying).
![]() 03/20/2019 at 21:45 |
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I think that there should be a tax for tech giants. Specially those in social media. Like an FCC Fairness Doctrine but for investigative journalism.
![]() 03/20/2019 at 21:57 |
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I don’t really think there’s reason to regulate them any differently than any other large company. And there’s a lot of first amendment issues that would come into it .
![]() 03/20/2019 at 21:59 |
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Well, the internet is not exactly a place where compettition can exist easily, I understand her inclination to regulate some companies as Utilities.
How would that happen? I don't know. Maybe taxes or breaking them up... We just know that the internet is a marketplace unlike any regular physical market we know... and it trends to monopolies faster than physical markets too.
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Competition is way easier on the internet than in the physical world. Much smaller barriers to entry. And with the exception of Facebook, none of those companies is really a monopoly. I’d support regulating ISPs as utilities, as there are huge barriers to competition there, but except for Google’s dabbling, none of them are in that field.
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I agree on the barrier to entry, but us humans tend to want everything in the same place, the internet lets us have it
. Which is why facebook’s billions of users are a competitive advantage no other company could have. You just can’t split Face from Book and have half of the users in one site.
With Amazon, it’s similar... Sure the barrier of entry is low, but because us humans are so lazy,
shit like this can happen over and over again
. It’s not a level playing field given the size of the brand online and their logistical capabilities offline.
Google also displayed some monopoly crap when it made everyone have a Google+ account. In that instance it failed, but there are so many instances of tech companies bickering between eachother with such uncompetitive patterns that you really need to ask yourself if they’re acting like trusts!
![]() 03/20/2019 at 22:31 |
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Based on this I’m voting for Hickenlooper.
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Don’t tax the platforms. The users are the terrible parties.
Impose a progressive tax based on the number of social media followers. The more followers, the greater tax burden.
![]() 03/21/2019 at 00:13 |
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Holy fuck that last one of Bernie was too good. Also big props for not including Tulsi or Yang.
![]() 03/21/2019 at 12:06 |
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They should’ve included Weld tho