The Year the Tables Turned on Big Tech
By now, just about anyone you know as probably told reminded you that 2020 royally sucked. Everyone can relate to the reality of this dumpster fire, but today I want to focus on one particularly positive (depending on your point of view) morsel to rise out of the 2020 inferno: a willingness by US regulators to break up Big Tech.
First, let me make some disclaimers. I’m by no means an expert in anti-trust or law in general, though I have read many books on the subject and have followed its intersection with the tech giants for several years. At first, it might seem a bit strange to write about antitrust in a surveillance post, but I hope by the end of this the connection will become clear. So stick with me.
If you engage with the digital world in any meaningful way, then you’ve witnessed an all-encompassing transformation of the internet’s communication and power structure in the past decade.
Google and Facebook, once quaint startups spawned from cramped Ivy League door rooms have transformed into multi-billion dollar companies with services used by nearly half the…
