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tonymet ◴[] No.43719240[source]
the FTC is like Jim Cramer. Once they judge a business to be a monopoly, the business falls apart and the monopoly is irrelevant. Look at the hundreds of millions wasted on the Windows / IE monopoly trial. the AT&T break up set American technology back by decades and killed our domestic chip production.
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1. olyjohn ◴[] No.43719749[source]
Tech companies have set back technology by decades already.

We can't to any P2P shit on the internet, instead everything goes through a middle man who will take your money or flood you with ads.

We have bandwidth limitations on every connection, even though bandwidth is cheaper than it's ever been.

The only universal communications system is still... Regular-ass phone calls and e-mail, which is like 100+ and 50 years old respectively. Everything else is proprietary and doesn't work with other systems.

We have to launch tens of thousands of satellites and beam data into outer fucking space in order to get internet to people.

Most of the "internet" all runs in 1 of 3 cloud providers.

We are forced to use Chrome on Windows, or use a Phone to browse the web or deal with endless captchas and having to prove that we are humans.

Search engines are all fucked and barely work. Everything is full of junk and trash. Now we need that chip production to run massive data centers to train some AI on how to sift through all the trash.

I don't know who else to blame but the tech industry itself.

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2. bix6 ◴[] No.43720344[source]
Blame money. Tech can and has been used to improve our lives. But money talks and the focus is too much on never ending hockey stick growth for its own sake.