On Mi, 28 oct 20, 08:26:15, John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: > > Investigations started in the US congress (and, iirc, in the EC > > counterparts) may lead to de-monopolizing some of those services. > > If you are referring to the efforts to gut the DMCA "safe harbor" > provisions that will have the opposite effect. Same for the efforts to > impose Chinese-style "voluntary" censorship. These sorts of things > impose large costs which do not scale with the size of the organization. > This will lead to an oligopoly of a few very large heavily regulated > organizations, leading to calls for even more regulation.
It seems to me rhkramer is referring to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/congress-big-tech-monopoly-power.html (just one of the articles I quickly found via a web search that appears to be readable without a subscription) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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