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Thanks to Elizabeth Warren, breaking up Big Tech will be a major issue in the primaries

mimisabreena Saturday, March 09, 2019 Mashable

Now this is what we call a power move.

Elizabeth Warren published a blog post on Medium that matter of factly stated that it's time to break up three of the most powerful companies in the country.

That's right: Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Facebook, Google, and Amazon. And she's got a plan to do it.

There have been increasing calls in the press, government, and legal worlds that our current tech giants constitute monopolies the likes of which we haven't seen since the Gilded Age, and that we need to give them the Gilded Age treatment. But Warren's post, and speech that she delivered in Queens (sorry, Bezos), turn that idea into an actual mainstream plan of attack. Read more...