The most recent major antitrust case in the U.S. happened 20 years ago, when the federal government went after Microsoft. In the decades since, technology companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon have sprung up and, relatively free from political consequence, grown to subsume the entire internet. The result is vast and frequently horrific consequences for how we exchange and receive information, the ramifications of which we are just starting to comprehend. Neither Congress nor the Federal Trade Commission has been doing much by way of policy to limit internet platforms’ growth to promote competition, but that may finally be changing.
from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2FCPSK1
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