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0 pointsendofcapital7y ago0 comments

Here we go, buckle up. With the amount of power democrats are likely to consolidate in the next few elections there could be some serious movement on this if it becomes a priority for the party.

I think the big three are way too powerful and need to be broken up, but doing so intelligently is a tricky problem that I don't have much faith in government tackling.

Zuckerberg integrating all the services yesterday seems to be a transparent attempt to short circuit splitting the company along these service lines, he knows this is coming. I'll bet $100 he'll soon be talking about how it's impossible to split out insta from facebook because of database keys and integrated AI or whatever.

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el_cujo7y ago

At this point in the campaign, I think people are just throwing out ideas to see what sticks. If this idea becomes super popular on, say, twitter, then it will probably enter into the rotation of things she talks about at rallies and become part of her platform. If it doesn't really catch on, I could see it not being brought up again.

sct2027y ago

I don't think it'll be a priority because I'm not really sure if this is a real thing that Warren believes or if she's just throwing this out there to see if it has legs.

keeganjw7y ago

If someone other than Warren gets elected, it could very well get put on the back burner. But this is defintely what Warren believes. When she was a professor at Harvard or the head of the CFPB, cracking down on very large, very powerful corporations was always her focus, whether via anti-trust or other means.

JshWright7y ago

> if it becomes a priority for the party

I think that's very unlikely. Maybe in the far future, but unless there is some significant campaign finance reform first, the big tech companies have more than enough cash to prevent the "worst" possible outcome (from their perspective).

jpadkins7y ago

why are you bullish on democrats winning the next few elections?

Kephael7y ago

This is another nonsensical plan, between ideas like this and 70% tax rates (that would certainly apply to people earning far less than $10M+ annually) there would be tanks in the street by 2026.

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