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162 | Max Chafkin: What the Rise of the Silicon Valley Right Means for America

The Realignment

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Is There a Monopoly in 20 21?

i think this is actuallya completely fascinating time to talk about monopoly. My concern about the conversation around tech monopolies, especialy when it comes to social media companies, is that it's effectively been narratively frozen in 20 14 o 20 17. It's just harder and harder for me to look at facebook and 20 21 and make the conclusion that this is a huge monopoly. I mean, i think face book's dominance, you know, over our lives is very obvious. But on the other hand, does facebook has competitors? And those competitors are a bunch of other really, really big tech companies who operate very similarly. Maybe there's going to be a way to allow law

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