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Big Tech are the new Soviets – We're in a planned economy now (unherd.com)
7 points by bloke_zero 45 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


We've been one since the DEA was established, and the FTC started letting everything merge. All the big actors are few enough in number that collusion/centralized planning dynamics simply emerge given it's the same handfuls of people calling the shots.


Communist bullshit. While oligopolies in the ecommerce, AI, Operating Systems, Clouds, and Space are concerning, they are far from the Gosplan.




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