Exactly. In the current climate especially I think its worth keeping track of these upper echelon billionaires cause it sure smells like they're up to bigger shenanigans than usual.. This too Elon Musk and including his takeover of Twitter and everything since has really only been a net positive for R+(Republican Fascism)
Maybe this should start happening, at least over here.
After a historic antitrust ruling against Google, the president has an opportunity to break up the biggest monopoly
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The ongoing reason often given for the demise of journalism is that it is all based on market trends:
The people want clickbait, not news. Thus, logic dictates, that it isn’t a government problem, but an economic one. “We’re giving the people what they want,” is our lament.
The government created this mess. Specifically, Ronald Reagan created this mess. The media landscape, our current political divisiveness and the fact that cheesy, cheap hucksters like Donald Trump can worm their way into politics is all because of Ronald Reagan. By removing the guardrails that insured a robust journalistic industry dedicated to providing factual information, we’ve been gifted, via Reagan, the Fox Network that recently settled a $750 million libel lawsuit and admitted it’s not broadcasting news – only entertainment. Biden is in a unique position to fix the greatest existential communication problem of this century: bust up the media monopolies.
He has long supported unions, decried monopolies and championed the cause of the small businessman. He took on big pharma. He can take on Big Media (emphasis on Big.)