Rush Limbaugh’s Brilliant Solution To Social Media Monopolies (Mark Zuckerberg Should Be Terrified)
There has been a lot of discussions recently on how to address the massive amount of power Silicon Valley’s big tech companies have over the flow of information, access to voters, private information, and our lives in general.
Both the right and the left agree they seem to have simply too much power, but what no one anywhere seems to be able to come up with is what, exactly, should be done.
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on his radio show this week came up with a brilliant, and simple solution.
It’s time to bust them up.
Limbaugh referred to an op-ed written in USA Today by Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, who proposed it’s time to look back to the anti-trust era.
“Teddy Roosevelt busted up the trusts, among them Standard Oil, the Rockefeller family, and J. P. Morgan, who was on the verge of owning the United States financial markets,” said Limbaugh.
“You know, I don’t like monopolies, and I really hate government intervention, but this social media stuff is getting totally out of hand,” he added.
He then cited a recent poll which said that 42% percent of Americans believe that Russia and Trump colluded to win the 2016 election, even to the point of tampering with votes.
“This has been one of the most successful hoaxes that has ever been run in politics,” he said, pointing the finger directly at big tech for helping orchestrate “one of the most successful disinformation campaigns ever.”
He explained that, despite the conspicuous lack of evidence to the contrary, social media companies have directly participated in perpetuating the myth that Trump and Russia somehow influenced the 2016 election.
Directing his attention back to massive tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon, he said:
“They have become monopolies. But more importantly, they have become monopolies of information. The old Drive-By Media, old mainstream media had a monopoly on the news, and it was a profound monopoly, three networks, and all the newspapers.”
“This is far denser. The tentacles of this monopoly are woven much more deeply into the grain of our culture and society,” Limbaugh continued. “And they are every bit as partisan as anything ever has been. They are exclusionary. Anything to the right of Karl Marx is obliterated, is not permitted. It is simply eliminated from Facebook, Google, search results, you name it, and the impact that it is having on our culture is deleterious.”
Limbaugh agreed with Reynolds that it is time to take a page out of Roosevelt’s book and break these companies up, as the power they have over the flow of information is far too great to ignore.
Reading from the article, he said:
“‘Big monopolies aren’t just an economic threat: They’re a political threat. Because they’re largely free of market constraints,’ because they don’t have any competition, ‘they don’t have to put all their energy into making a better product for less money. Instead, they put a lot of their energy into political manipulation to protect their monopoly.’”
“These are people who are uber-leftists,” Limbaugh pointed out. “Whether you’re talking Amazon, Netflix, Google, Facebook, they are all uber-leftists, and they are not just setting up their systems here to make money. They’re setting up their systems to influence public opinion.”
Again reading from Reynolds’ article:
“‘Today, things look a lot like Teddy Roosevelt’s era,’ with Standard Oil and J. P. Morgan. ‘A few monopolies occupy much of the tech world: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google … They gobble up potential competitors, as Facebook did with WhatsApp and Instagram.’”
“‘These new tech monsters have a one-two punch that Standard Oil (didn’t have): Not only do they control immense wealth and important industries but their fields of operation … give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies of the Teddy Roosevelt era,” he continued.
“This is exactly right,” Limbaugh commented. “They should be busted up. They are monopolies controlling the flow of information.”
“The left loves to throw around the word ‘fairness,’” he continued. “They’re obsessed by it. There isn’t any fairness. There isn’t anything approaching fairness in the social media universe. Busting them up as monopolies is not to facilitate conservatism. It is to help American consumers by providing competition and so forth, which they, these companies, are all shutting out by buying them up.”
No one on the right likes government interfering with the private business sector.
But when a handful of companies in the private sector have so much influence over the way people receive and share information, it’s time to step up and consider the threat they pose to our republic.
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