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The Myth of Regulation
In the early days of what we now call the internet, there were a number of different players and it was an opportunity for smaller guys as well as bigger companies. What we've seen over the past 20 years or so is a concentration of power into fewer and fewer hands. The politicians were believing in this multitude, but it was a less affair that led to what you described with big tech pulling all those strings. And I think big tech knew that this would lead to this, that it would be the big winners. We could see this coming and the politicians were not mature enough to say, okay, we need to do something. Regulation is not a bad word. Many good things came out
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