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beedeebeedee • today at 4:34 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

“ When Big Tech and the broligarchy are gone, entrepreneurs will finally have a chance to build new businesses whose success doesn’t rely on commodifying their users’ attention, monetizing their data, exploiting workers, enshittifying their own products, and degrading the natural environment.”

There’s a lot of reasons for this community to want consequences for the big tech oligarchs that are more than a slap on the wrist. The benefits of holding them to account are not just for environmentalists, social justice activists or rural people against data centers and inflation; the big tech oligarchs have stifled the emergence of new companies and entrepreneurs. That’s something even VC people should want to see changed.


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alphawhisky • today at 5:10 PM

This. They're literally attempting regulatory capture of the GLOBAL market for this stuff. It doesn't get more unfair and against the spirit of free trade and equal opportunity.