"Free market" conservatives, aghast at Big Tech's hostility, become overnight Roosevelt-style trustbusters
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3Y8PQ)
They say "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged" -- whether or not that's true, it's becoming abundantly clear that "a trustbuster is a neoliberal who's been on the wrong side of the online platforms' monopoly power" -- Big Tech was the first beneficiary of Reagan's assault on anti-trust law and has perfected a number of next-generation, bleeding-edge tactics for suppressing competition during 40 years' worth of free rein. (more")