{"id":3026,"date":"2019-09-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:50:16","slug":"ten-thousand-years-of-history-show-that-excecting-big-tech-to-self-regulate-is-a-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/ten-thousand-years-of-history-show-that-excecting-big-tech-to-self-regulate-is-a-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Thousand Years Of History Show That Expecting Big Tech To Self-Regulate Is A Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">Though social media and the big tech companies are relatively young, many citizens and lawmakers are fed up with their abuses. The House of Representatives has undertaken a sweeping&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5601754\/congress-anti-trust-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/time.com\/5601754\/congress-anti-trust-local-news\/\">antitrust investigation<\/a>&nbsp;of the industry. People ranging from Senator Elizabeth Warren to Facebook co-founder&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html\">Chris Hughes<\/a>&nbsp;have called for the breakup of big tech. The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the companies\u2019 anticompetitive practices.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/states-add-to-scrutiny-on-google-facebook-other-big-tech-11559918816?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/states-add-to-scrutiny-on-google-facebook-other-big-tech-11559918816?mod=article_inline\">States attorneys general<\/a>&nbsp;are even getting into the act. Meanwhile, the big tech companies are mounting a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-06\/big-tech-is-armed-and-waiting-to-repel-u-s-antitrust-onslaught\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-06\/big-tech-is-armed-and-waiting-to-repel-u-s-antitrust-onslaught\">counterattack<\/a>&nbsp;designed to put off their day of reckoning and allow them to continue to regulate themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/09\/08\/ten-thousand-years-of-history-show-that-expecting-big-tech-to-self-regulate-is-a-fantasy\/#6c7bd10510ba\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though social media and the big tech companies are relatively young, many citizens and lawmakers are fed up with their abuses. The House of Representatives has undertaken a sweeping&nbsp;antitrust investigation&nbsp;of the industry. People ranging from Senator Elizabeth Warren to Facebook co-founder&nbsp;Chris Hughes&nbsp;have called for the breakup of big tech. The Federal Trade Commission is looking&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}