Washington’s judgment on tech giants already ‘written,’ says top Lina Khan aide

While I support the idea of breaking up big tech, I don't think it'll be the panacea everyone is hoping it'll be. We need real, substantive change with regards to privacy, security, and business ethics; if they're broken up as is, we'll have N*X companies seriously good at abusing us and the competition instead of just N.

We need to take firm steps to outlaw the practices that got us to this point in the first place. Ban dark patterns, mandate data-use as opt-in outside of a TOS, require breach disclosure within a set period of time, grant exclusive ownership to user generated content to the user, et cetera. There is a lot we can do here!

There is a repeated pattern in economical development, which consists of (1) innovation, which creates new products/markets, (2) expansion, which generates new companies, perfecting new products, (3) competition between new companies, which reduces profits of new companies, (4) merges of companies into a small number of big companies (5) monopolistic markets. What would be beneficial is to address negative aspects of this cycle. Maybe merges should be controlled, to a large extent; maybe something else would be better.

> “… from the perspective of legislation, their judgment has been written” sounds great to do some fund-raising or lobbying sales off of.