If ‘Big Tech’ Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?

The problem, of course, is there’s enough legitimate bipartisan worry about the power of big tech that this little telecom sector lobbying gambit has been able to fly under the radar as the real driver of this new Trump administration push. But there’s a reason the Trump administration ignores telecom’s monopoly and privacy issues while amplifying Silicon Valley’s, and I’d argue it has a lot more to do with protectionism than a genuine worry about healthy markets. I don’t think it’s happenstance that this new Trump “big tech” antitrust push comes as big telecom has asked for just such a push to aid its own competitive agenda.

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