Hi Chris, Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 15, 2017, at 09:54, Chris Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > The anti-monopolistic ideas in the article are stimulating. What are the > dangers to the consumer, when the cost of a Google search is zero? This is > quite unlike the robber baron monopolists of the early 20th century who > jacked up steel and oil prices to produce outrageous profits. Now, the data > oligarchs are using our information to gain big time profits. > The problem is that the danger is to other businesses, not consumers. What are the things that may never get built because Facebook and Google can "hoard" their data? This where the European antitrust mindset (which focuses on competition) is likely a better starting point than the American (that focuses only on price). E -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
