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Nov 27 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Some good lines by @TomValletti in @simonvandorpe pc. Google "created a moat to make it easy to get into the platform & impossible to get out[;]..
2/3 of searches..don’t leave the platform... I was there ..to pull out the BS..& I worked my ass off". #CTRS ftm.eu/articles/maver…
2/ Scale, speed & supranat'l scale distinguishes big tech power now from when antitrust mvmt emerged in early 20C in response to Standard Oil. Scale allows these firms to threaten govts, as Facebook is doing now in Canada wrt to the Online News Act bill, ie deplatform news'. #C18
. @EuropeanCommiss #DMA prohibits Big Tech platforms to give advantages to their own services. So, too, does my fav part of #C18, the Online News Act (s51). This is way better than the weak beer found in #C11, the Online Streaming Act. #CRTC
Last tweet in this thread. Valletti ends w/ 2 key pts: 1. big tech provide services with economy wide implication, and we must deal w/ that and 2. we must ask ourselves, "what kind of society do we want to live in?" --30--

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