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A few more comments on the Google/monopoly question. I don't have strong views of just how you break it up into a few component parts. I wouldn't even say I'm 100% saying it must be broke up, though I can't see anyway to address the problems without that. The key to me ...
2/ is Google has repeatedly used monopoly power in one area to build monopoly power in other areas. In advertising and publishing, its monopoly power is massively clear. It owns the pipelines and the product. Google totally dominates both the ad industry and the infrastructure..
3/ of advertising. This was built on the ownership of search. And both now feed heavily off Google's various oceanic pipelines of data. But search is separable from the different components of its display advertising business. Simply put, I don't know the precise solution ...
4/ but the problem is clear and demonstrable.
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Head of Immigrant-arresting right wing militia attacked in jail after his arrest. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/arrested-… via @TPM
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Since Alex and I were talking abt this. I went to the open secrets page where Sirota got his list from and randomly selected different industry sectors to see where Beto came out.
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This is not a plug for Beto. But really revealing moment was when the Bernie circumcellions briefly thought Beto was a big deal and had their apeshit moment about him. Sirota had that list showing that Beto was like the biggest recipient of fossil fuel money of all candidates.
2/ This ignored the fact that he raised like three times as much as any other candidate so almost by definition he was going to be near the top or at the top of almost every kind of money. Also he’s from Texas. A state dominated by the fossil fuel industry. And those numbers ...
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