Monday, March 11, 2019

Hoist on Their Own Petard

It doesn't strain the imagination to surmise that the prospect of splitting up Google Search and its ad businesses wasn't well received in Mountain View. And Amazon's executives probably aren't too welcoming of a proposal to bar the company from selling directly on its own marketplace. [More]
A government big enough to "regulate" your enemies is big enough to "regulate" you.

I would not look for a sudden change of heart and newfound "conservatism," though. After being publicly sodomized by DOJ, Bill Gates went all Stockholm Syndromed for Big Government on us, and I expect Bezos 'n Zuck et al. to embrace the haze.

[Via Henry Bowman]

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