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The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
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this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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The past is a good reference to learn from, but it can't be a blueprint for the present. There are different circumstances between then and now which complicate things, like the aforementioned big money in politics.
Just a few in the US - and they were all different at that time. They were all intertwined with politics at their time. Quick google search though, not sure how good the sources are:
Railroad: https://digfir-published.macmillanusa.com/roark7e/roark7e_ch18_4.html
Steel, oil, and tobacco: https://19thcentury.us/19th-century-monopolies/
Telco: https://www.promarket.org/2023/02/20/when-considering-breaking-up-big-tech-we-should-look-back-to-att/
Or just recently: take a look at China. How Chinese Big Tech influence on society was crushed and control was taken back by the Communist Party in the past 5 years.