I'm not saying it wasen't a problem, but America thought these FANG companies were solving our problems.
I never liked Google Executives going to the White House, but I don't think it was because Obama sold out. Tech was very new. Google honestly wanted to help.
It seemed like every young guy wanted to be Zuck. Hell even Zuck thought he could run for president one day.
It was all so inspiring. Now it's just ugly.
But I'm surprised you could find much drama or political commentary through all the app spam of the late 00's in Facebook.
The career antitrust officials at FTC thought Google should be prosecuted, but the political appointees (of both parties) that control the agency shut down their investigation.
>The investigators, who handed the document to the five FTC commissioners who would decide whether to launch an antitrust suit, found in 2012 that the search company's "conduct has resulted -- and will result -- in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the online search and advertising markets."
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-cause...
Meanwhile, the EU proceeded with their own antitrust investigation into many of the same issues and Google was found to be guilty.
(Can't speak generally to zuck, but at least from what I saw people didn't really view Facebook and zuck the same way)
> I'm not saying it wasen't a problem, but America thought these FANG companies were solving our problems.
You are unintentionally projecting what you believed to be the truth, thinking that others also believed the same as you. I can assure you that not all of America thought those FANG companies were solving our problems.