X-Git-Url: http://git.nikiroo.be/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=test%2Fexpected%2FSLASHDOT%2F0102640274.header;fp=test%2Fexpected%2FSLASHDOT%2F0102640274.header;h=3d5338f5eb7e8d11fa2365d813ff7c3afece2abb;hb=299a08f325f3de71e191b17b16a120d1714e3d7c;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=1aaa6ba3686a5a14f2957b6b8d02ffc0903f6832;p=gofetch.git diff --git a/test/expected/SLASHDOT/0102640274.header b/test/expected/SLASHDOT/0102640274.header new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d5338f --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/SLASHDOT/0102640274.header @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +0Professor Who Coined Term 'Net Neutrality' Thinks It's Time To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102640274 70 +i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD) +i from the easier-said-than-done dept. +i +i pgmrdlm shares a report from The Verge: Best known for coining +i the phrase "net neutrality" and his book The Master Switch: +i The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book +i coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust +i in the New Gilded Age. In it, he argues compellingly for a +i return to aggressive antitrust enforcement in the style of +i Teddy Roosevelt, saying that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and +i other huge tech companies are a threat to democracy as they +i get bigger and bigger. "We live in America, which has a strong +i and proud tradition of breaking up companies that are too big +i for inefficient reasons," Wu told me on this week's Vergecast. +i "We need to reverse this idea that it's not an American +i tradition. We've broken up dozens of companies." "I think if +i you took a hard look at the acquisition of WhatsApp and +i Instagram, the argument that the effects of those acquisitions +i have been anticompetitive would be easy to prove for a number +i of reasons," says Wu. And breaking up the company wouldn't be +i hard, he says. "What would be the harm? You'll have three +i competitors. It's not 'Oh my god, if you get rid of WhatsApp +i and Instagram, well then the whole world's going to fall +i apart.' It would be like 'Okay, now you have some companies +i actually trying to offer you an alternative to Facebook.'" +i Breaking up Facebook (and other huge tech companies like +i Google and Amazon) could be simple under the current law, +i suggests Wu. But it could also lead to a major rethinking of +i how antitrust law should work in a world where the giant +i platform companies give their products away for free, and the +i ability for the government to restrict corporate power seems +i to be diminishing by the day. And it demands that we all think +i seriously about the conditions that create innovation. "I +i think everyone's steering way away from the monopolies, and I +i think it's hurting innovation in the tech sector," says Wu. +i