It'd be great if states actually focused on real problems like education and medicine instead of going after tech which provides services for free and is generally liked.
No one is blaming tech for debt or financial ruin.
No one is blaming tech for debt or financial ruin.
It is a serious point. Protecting advertising companies from each other is a perplexing choice of resource allocation given the alternatives.
I don't like taxing so I would never advocate for taxing a person or a company.
Coincidentally, around the same time big tech came into being, the nation that birthed, nurtured, and protected them started losing its world dominance to rival sovereignties that took the opposite approach in dealing with these generous givers by monitoring their behaviour, limiting their power and influence over the nation and its citizens, enforcing compliance with national policy (for good or bad), and extracting a fair share of the profits in return for their use of public infrastructure.
The US had a little moment of time where it was the dominant power. It wasn't the dominant power in 1900 and it won't be in 2050. The idea that the decline is because of Google etc defies a much simpler explanation. As soon as China moved off of straight communism they were bound for dominance due to their population and general work ethic. There is no reason that over the long term China should have lower GDP per person than the US. Hence they'll have about 4x the total GDP and be able to spend 4x as much on military due to their 4x population size v US.
The AG should be doing this and the appropriate people should be doing their jobs to improve education and medicine as well.
It's not free when you are the product being sold.