Cory teaches us why antitrust has been revived. As Cory says, something that doesn't have to go on forever will eventually stop.

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besides the stuff in this thread, it's also the most legible policy position that emerged from Occupy Wall Street, which is the only recent left movement not defined by a particular guy and old enough that people don't remember their grievances with it

Where the USA fails me, the EU will not. The antitrust violations forced towards my shelf apply everywhere, not just in the USA.

We can really see this in the EU, where the new Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act are going after Big Tech with both barrels, with the enthusiastic support of the EU's tech industry. That's because the EU's tech industry barely registers when placed alongside of US Big Tech, which has sucked up nearly 100% of the market oxygen by cheating (on privacy, taxes, wages, etc). Despite the farcical efforts of US tech shills like Nick Clegg (former UK Deputy Prime Minister turned Meta shill, who insisted that Facebook was "defending European cyberspace from Chinese communism"), everyone knew that US tech companies were extracting (billions of euros and the personal information of 500m Europeans) from the bloc and siphoning it off to America, after first cleansing it of any tax obligations by laundering it through Ireland and the Netherlands.

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