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Tech Titans at Bay?

Jul 31, 2020 Diane Coyle

Though the tech monopolists may capture significant short-term gains from the accelerating shift online, the recent congressional antitrust hearing showed that they can no longer avoid the harsh glare of the political spotlight. The writing may be on the wall.

CAMBRIDGE – Big Tech is back in the spotlight – and not in a good way. On July 29, the chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook spent more than five hours fielding tough questions about their overwhelming market power from a bipartisan antitrust panel in the US House of Representatives. Is the end of an era approaching?

In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a boon for tech companies. As Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg all noted in their opening statements at the antitrust hearing, people appreciate the services their companies provide. Recent research indicates that the COVID-19 crisis has deepened this appreciation.

This is not surprising. Digital technologies have enabled workers to do their jobs from home, students to continue their classes while schools are closed, and people to stay in touch with loved ones and entertain themselves while sheltering in place.

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Elizabeth Pula Aug 25, 2020

https://dailyreckoning.com/were-all-serfs-of-big-tech/

In the US, there is NOT a digital divide, the real story is that 4 to 5 monopolies are ruling the entire Telecommunications data processing universal functional and operating
systems originating in the United States branded with any corporate name or corporate entity, regardless of physical land locations of any operations by humans or AI systems.

To add a bit more flavor to the monopoly story, per Charles Hugh Smith- "Once the profits flowing from monopoly pile up, buy back the shares you “printed” to eliminate competition, boosting the wealth of insiders to the moon. Since share buybacks were
once illegal, this is nothing but legalized fraud."
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Madurai Padmanabhan Aug 3, 2020

“monopolists may capture significant short-term gains from the accelerating shift online, they can no longer avoid the harsh glare of the political spotlight.“

Tech and online are this year’s highlights; however monopolists of financial architecture, trade rules, Geo economic principles, infact the very narratives that drive “global mindsets” should also be under the lens.

Most economists point fingers at Big Tech, but the concerted effort of these same guys in the last 70+ years has created more than just the “digital divide”. Big words like heterodoxy & revisionist are used to mask the monopolisation of the thought waves. As an example, I still note “Far East” used in some comments. ( akin to insisting Earth was the centre of the solar system!)

Big Tech in the Pacific (or FarWest) is monopolistic like the system that spawned it.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020

This is a quick flashback to after WW2- in Britain.

There was a valid system -manned by volunteers- that was built way back when. The system was primarily manned by volunteers. Today the system could be an example of other systems that can create positions for paid employment for focussed tasks as appropriate for the time, place, and population. With the extreme vulnerabilities of telecommunications systems and points of contact to be accessible, the possibility to even remain accessible and critically allow ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS to function at some level during "emergency time intervals", the convenience factors of software applications are hopelessly unusable. Right now is an example of a time, place, and opportunity to change the focus of what is essential, and what is essential for certain tasks that create and most importantly allow money flows based on essential tasks that establish focussed activities that allow people to be worth something to their selves and others. It's too late when the battleground is already obliterated.

This link is not a link to nostalgia, but a link to review just what tasks are essential when software applications and telecommunications totally are inaccessible for whatever reasons during critical times, like especially now.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/england-secret-nuclear-bunkers

"With all of this in mind, utility, survival, and maintenance of a functional society were hopeful, secondary goals for the bunkers. The network was, by design, one of Cold War Britain’s worst-kept secrets, at home and abroad. The very existence of these bunkers, and the willingness of thousands of volunteers to train to defend their country, could have played a role in preventing a nuclear strike from occurring in the first place."

It took a lot of work for that young man to materialize what he glimpsed as a possibility at about the age of 14.

Writing about the tasks and the focus does not come anywhere close to real work that was involved in the real world, even during his restoration focus back prior to 2018, nor the initial organizational focus of real people in England and quite a few other places globally. Their real work efforts have been horrendously discounted by a few claimers with no rights to what they are claiming to be doing at all in the real world.

The WILL of millions today can play better roles, than endure "idly in lockdown-their individual fates" from the restrictions of any access to any positive opportunities that is presently rampantly destroying people from their psychological selves, being eaten alive while ignorant of the real invasive species and causal factors. The real virus ain't the virus that is being sold in the public messaging.

The focus does not imply any directed work effort against some nuclear attack, but to focus and address the attacks on individuals VS individuals at the core of their personal awareness of their own identities. That's the battle zone presently, across the US.
- Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020
  
  Briefly, the ongoing battle is strategized attacks on many levels that are strategized and highly skilled psychological attacks of various immobilized populations at varying times, varying severity, and for specific results.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020

RE:"All the services that have made lives so much better under social-distancing rules..." I'd say I am witnessing and testifying to some really well strategized auto-generated text, although I have no idea as to who owns the AI program. I can guess MS. However, perhaps Tik-Tok and friends.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020

The testaments are pretty strung out at this point. Where's the limit line, and point?
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020

A minimal number of employees will be retained on payrolls for any time periods that used to indicate any phase of a "working career". The present employment access is temporary short-term contract work, with a pay scale that will be dropping lower for even the 100,000USD contract work. Digital Technologies can only support the real manufacturing and real product development that reveals "demand". As the demand decreases because many of the "tasks" are no longer needed for the corporate process, the results for any seeker-of-paid work is increasingly negative. If there were new job openings in new products, then that could compensate as new jobs are defined. However, Digital Technologies are primarily eliminating any ACCESS to any employment for the majority of seeks-of-paid work.

I love your take-away and presumption that a majority of people are presently in a state of bliss and enjoyment. You may want to take a real look at the real predicament of quite a few seekers-of-paid-work. A relatively few people get to stay in touch with loved ones and entertain themselves while sheltering in place.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020

RE:"The writing may be on the wall."
That posturing stance for the approach of the article does not reveal much promise of any real critical action to produce real results by the FTC and FCC to have real positive effects across the real United States for the majority of real citizens.

So, Bah, humbug. I give you 1 star, and not gold either, for initial effort. The real US needs a lot more than a little bit of a little bit of general scrutiny. The real specifics of the Telecommunications System needs to be totally examined starting from the connection point of the router that brings "any" signal into an individual home. It's been scrutinized for years, with no real results of positive change from FTC or FCC.

Go ahead, experiment, disconnect your router/modem YOURSELF, start at point "A". Read about what "updating" Firmware is. Read about the wiring, and type of real "MEDIA" problems exist in the last 20 to 100 feet usually to bring any kind of Telecommunication ACCESS to permit any citizen basically anywhere, but for this comment specifically in the US, (I don't have the slightest idea what you may have to deal with in Cambridge, but it really doesn't matter)-but start at POINT "A" yourself. Check just what that little "wireless" active indicator on your devices really represents for the "well" of everything. Then start passing around the real words about the real problems for the citizen when it comes to using objects/devices (to put IT euphemisically). And start to really examine how processes affect the real economies. Do you yourself read and know anything about the architectural infrastructure of controlling light waves to CONTROL ACCESS to Telecommunication Systems that is the present total economic base of the global and this nation's economy? Do you know anything about essential Security of ACCESS and CONTROL systems in general?

When AI systems are designed to increase "profit" and eliminate any continuing increase of sales of "small" vendors so that the Behemoth can buy-out other "vendor supplied goods" and then that Behemoth continues to grow because of that real "eating" process as all the money goes into its Tummy instead of any of the tummies of small entrepreneurs that are BATTLING for market-share, just guess what fun and games you get to see more of on the streets of places like Cambridge. Now your kids tummies may enjoy all kinds of goodies, but if the devouring process of AMAZON is not ended, then enjoy the interim chaos that really develops to really prove chaos theory on all kinds and in increasingly different ways not imaginable.

Here's a nice little example to allude to some credibility of the prior text:
"The Bethany Beach Ocean Suites Hotel said the average summer rate is $799 per night, has been dramatically reduced following a rash of cancellations. "

OK, the going rate of 800USD per night is a toss in the bucket for any friends of Biden that don't enjoy accommodations at his home, now the same JOES are eliminating life support through the legislative process, while gaining 100% expense reimbursed for their food costs, while they already have practically a full-expense paid lifestyle at the total risk and continuing escalating costs of every taxpayer across the US. Think about what is really occurring while the battle of debating FREE-RIDERS creates another round of legislation to deplete the US in the real world, because of the increasing financial gains of especially a few corporate entities and the real back-end support sitting on a lot of chairs in the administrative meeting rooms in Washington DC.

US Congressional members do not even do any follow-up engagement within their own states for engagement with the citizens that vote for them. I know, because I have contacted my legislators, the real "contact" process is only AI for count for the vote for their continued income, any focus on any financing for essential infrastructure are fronts for further corruption, such as the fun and games in Ohio. Individual electric bills are increased due to fraudulent cooperative action of the entire legislature and top officials.

The AI systems need to be used as essential frameworks for distribution and licensing processes at the ground levels for redistribution for "communication" and "entrepreneurial" contracted activities in "THE REAL", with real accountable money flows to the real people that are doing the real work, not the dancers-on-strings that may think, if they do at all, they rule the entire world. Many of the political positions need to be eliminated, and points-of-contact need to be replaced with systems that allow access for direct citizen control and participating activities.

Money flows should not be directed only through the behind-the-scenes and secret flows of election process that has been totally corrupted by the pay-walls of the political gatekeepers and buddies.

However, what will probably happen is further controls to eliminate any movement of citizens into high-wealth regions due to COVID requirements that are used as the excuse to deny entry into specific US regions today. It's already in place. Enjoy your predicament in Cambridge. I'm sure Prince and company will enjoy the added revenues that are being recirculated their way.

The writing's been on many walls endlessly.
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Gillian Marcelle Aug 2, 2020

Thank you Prof Coyle, a focus on public interest is crucial. For two decades, we have lost sight of technological determinism and the limits of markets. We’ve forgotten the promise of digital technologies requires concern with equity. This accelerates as the platform companies become central to business and everyday life. The work of Robin Mansell is also generative in this area.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 1, 2020

"In rural areas, about one-third of households are not connected." The myth from the FCC about broad-band development, and rural buildups is just that, another one if not the biggest myth since the 1980's.
Con messaging, and con messaging for forty years now does get rather repetitive. Who got the licensing? Who had any access to be allowed to obtain any licensing? Ever wonder why? The FCC is a front for a few super wealthy entitled families who wrapped IT up quite conveniently for themselves. There is NO public access that still exists per the original FCC development of, or for A PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM. And that is exactly where the system needed to change a whole lot sooner than yesterday.

The US needs a public Telecommunications System. Use guidelines from the layout and design for the Federal Highway System. Start below ground and work up. Definitely do NOT allow SpaceX to have total control of the Satellite system for 5G. That means do NOT allow one man by any name to own the Satellite linking system for the entire US national 5G networks of local communities. The local communities need to have legal and complete control of 5G licensing process. All licensing needs to acknowledged as the main community and state taxation process for funding and redistributing processe to local communities for their essential infrastructure, including 5G design and product approvals.

FB should not OWN the undersea cabling and other essential MEDIA pipelines. etc. etc. etc. The monopolies need to shattered, and fragmented globally. That means break-them-up per original Federal Legislation. Apply the law and quit dancing with the wrong partners.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 1, 2020

RE:"including the viability of small producers and the economy’s dependence on digital market access." The total struggle is over ANY ACCESS other than to the 4 that are controlling ALL ACCESS. If no one within the FCC and FTC can admit that reality, then the only winner is "DOOM" for a short time, and other similar subscription games. The state will not survive on the menus of platforms that are desperately creating coding processes for more AI programs to eliminate all ACCESS to real goods that are essential for survival.

If there were no public utility systems, if there were no controls of the present national railroads, if there were no water and sewer systems that all ready exist because of the building that occurred over the last 3 generations in the US, prior to the 1980's at the absolute latest, there would be no functioning infrastructure in the US today. The last big construction project for US national development in the US was the Hoover Dam. Everything else of US GDP, since WW2 has gone most effectively to Dubai.

The Denver Airport was a sort of half-step in the right direction for the Western Region. That's about it since the 80's.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 1, 2020

People need to be sensible and recognize the limitations of what software application can do to improve any real product development and manufacturing. The functions of the community and human beings need to be recognized as essential. Telecommunications Systems and Languages and code encryptions have limitations and can definitely be against state security interests. National boundaries need to be recognized. Presently Huawei already has confirmed manufacturing contracts in Arizona. Their access to supply-chain commitments are not being acknowledged publicly.
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Elizabeth Pula Aug 1, 2020

The FTC and FCC have NOT been abiding by the anti-trust legislation to work for the best interests of the Nation of the United States. The FTC and FCC have only been working to support the best interests of a few to the entire detriment of any interests for the functionality, the civility, and the social contract that constitutes the United States as reasonable and cooperative citizens. The nation is based on a social contract that is based on the principles of process to an IDEAL STATE. This is always a constant developing process, and has been a continuing process since the first written documentations of that conceptualization in text way back in the Common Era, in Sanskrit. The ideal state has always been acknowledged as an unattainable goal, with legislation to promote continuing group focus to be sensible and respectful of other human beings and to acknowledge the inspiriting process to an ideal. The Constitutions change during differing civilizations as do the applicable laws.

You may use the euphemism of a carrot on a stick in front of a mule as a depreciating reference, or you may use working towards an inspiration of a Supreme Being as a whole representing the internal actualization processes of the many. The reality is constantly changing. It is important to remember that every day is different and changes, but there needs to be reasonable and effective systems to create, sustain, and remain an equitable state in the process of attempting to be any thing, or any person, or any entity. The state exists for the many, and is only as healthy as the most of the citizens are healthy. The state of health is a real relative based on the day-to-day health conditions of the human beings.

The present corporate entities are not disruptive, they are de-STRUCTIVE of reasonable state confirmation process of reality with and for a real purpose of existence other than generating some fiat monetization processing for a few first claimers that are NOT first claimers to anything or anywhere on this planet. The few do not have the total rights to everyone else's bodies especially their DNA. There are individual rights that need to be acknowledged. These have been in the US Constitution, as have State Rights. DO NOT continue to corrupt the social contract that is reputable and existing.

At this time, the US Congress, and FTC and FCC members need to start working for the citizens of the United States as a Nation. They do not work for a few MNE's and virtual corporate entities that are really empires for destruction of everyone else.
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Prashant Kotak Aug 1, 2020

l"...The European Union is far ahead of the US when it comes to regulating, taxing, and constraining Big Tech..."

In fact, they have been so successful in this, that there are no tech giants originating from the EU at all. Count 'em again: nope, still zero. No technology companies in the top 20, and literally just a handful (outside the UK) in the top 100. So, this then turns into an exercise in regulating externally owned, bought-in tech, so it doesn't carve up your existing non-hightech industries and sectors with disruption, while paying minimal taxes - symptomatic in effect, of a management-of-decline mentality. Because, face it, notwithstanding the peerless pool of tech talent and innovation that *still* exists across Europe and especially in the UK, US and far-Eastern companies have bought out all the tech of value from Europe, and continue doing so as it emerges. So you now have the situation where noone in the EU owns any of the tech the global tech giants depend on. Conversley, as the lockdowns have just proved, all of European corporate and personal life is *totally* dependent on US, and to a lesser extent far-eastern owned tech. The only big weapon in Europe's armoury is that they are wealthy buyers of tech, and the tech giants covet this market. But this mechanically set to reduce as tech markets grow worldwide, and European wealth declines on the back of European lack of growth. So the EU is creating tech regulation frameworks, not from a position of strength, but to regulate a vaccum.
- Elizabeth Pula Aug 1, 2020
  
  RE:"So the EU is creating tech regulation frameworks, not from a position of strength, but to regulate a vaccum."
  
  However, the regulation framework, if acknowledged can most definitely be effectively legislated to minimize and control the vacuum. There has to be concerted will to support any defined real goals from any frameworks. The step that has started in the NW US could also move the fulcrum point to create some reasonable balance. It remains to be seen who or what wins.
  
  Chaos or None?
  
  Your comment was quite valid.
  - P. Kamath Aug 3, 2020
    
    Elizabeth Pula: OMG, you say,”.. However, the regulation framework, if acknowledged can most definitely be effectively legislated to minimize and control the vacuum. ..”. Your comments are too wordy and abstract to grasp. Perhaps u ought use more concrete language when you enter the realm of science, engineering, technology and mathematics. Pray tell me, what is “control of vacuum” 😳?
    
    It is so absurd to think of regulating creative expansion of knowledge in these fields. New Ideas are born in the mind of say an engineer or computer scientist even in sitting at lounge chair or fishing trip. Ideas evolve from reading a magazine, watching a new product, an ad, or listening to talk. Stimuli come from all directions.
    - Elizabeth Pula Aug 4, 2020
      
      An example of another type of "vacuum":
      https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-says-us-government-should-get-a-cut-of-any-deal-for-chinese-owned-tiktok-2020-08-03?mod=home-page
      
      The real act should be that NO, MS can not even be allowed to purchase TIKTOK. No, the US govt should NOT get a cut of any deal for Chinese owned TIKTOK.
      
      TIKTOK should be confined to software applications/platforms that should ONLY OPERATE WITHIN CHINA.
      
      US Applications/platforms should be confined to only operate within the US. etc. The same for other nations.
      
      More vaccuuming actions: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-fires-tennessee-valley-authority-board-members-cites-shift-to-foreign-workers-11596479284
      
      Yes, the TVA should only be allowed to hire US citizens, NOT shipping in non-nationals, especially with 30 million unemployed US citizens.
      Yes, the TVA CEO pay should be drastically reduced.
      Now, read between the lines, and recognize that within the next 6 months this initial headline will NOT be the real result of any of
      the real actions by any of the Corporate, State or Federal individuals.
      
      However, I do NOT rule the world, who does, and what will the real results finally produce?
      - P. Kamath Aug 4, 2020
        
        EP: You beat me here by making me -the questioner go round and round. I give up!
        Don’t you! I think as long as POTUS Trump who thinks he knows better than else, US is in trouble. Time to lock him up!
        
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    - Elizabeth Pula Aug 4, 2020
      
      Actually, that sentence was written and submitted in the comment by Prashant Kotak. I did reply to his originating comment.
      I addressed the fact that his comment, was valid and I also thought it was appropriate. He has also added some comments after yours and mine.
      In addition to your reference about "vacuum". I think that Prashant Kotak was correctly alluding to the fact that "production of real product is effectively negative" This negative state is affecting the various economies globally, and nationally. This is usually indicated by all the concern in the narratives about a decrease in GDP, and other economic indicators. Unemployment is a very obvious indicator of the negative state as a result of the decrease in producing real products and goods. However, if there is no demand for an increase in real products and goods, which is usually determined by reports of sales, and pricing of goods, and other positive indicators, there may or may not be a real negative state that exists at all. The demand factors need to be realistic for the majority of consumers. If only a few consumers are the real consumers of extremely high value (by relative price) items, their consumption can distort any of the indicators that are normally viewed as reasonably reflecting the overall state of specific and global economies. I think that my prior sentences explain some and only some of what Prashant Kotak mentioned in his comments. At this time I am going to comment with a bit more of my momentary personal take-away and that is all that I am doing in this comment. The style of my writing is definitely abstract, and definitely much of the rational and specific focus on rational and focused comments about economics and
      any interpretations of what a "vacuum" may indicate. I do this presently for a specific reason. I do not need to explain specifically to you at this time my specific reasons. On one level, I am beating-around-the-bush because I think that there is too much specific focus on details that are not accurate, and are no longer really relevant in the real world for any rational explanation of what is occurring in the economies, especially globally, and in the field of study that is presently acknowledged as "Economics". Most of what is being written is only third, fourth and fifth generations of opinions based on opinions, and is so NOT RELEVANT as to be farcical. So I am revealing the Farcical by writing in a farcical manner and context.
      
      Now, back to the word "Vacuum". Everything that you have written in your comment is quite valid. I never have even implied that anything of your comment may be invalid. However, at this time, I think that you think that I have. I have not.
      
      The vacuum that exists is no real product increase. There may be no need for more real products. There may be more of a need for Not-Real products. Virtual Reality may reveal that as an ongoing process as more Virtual Reality "products" occur. The only problem is that these VR products are NOT producing any monetary flows to any of the workers that are creating all of the processes that allow the VR (I look at VR as the projections of AI systems, which is basically what more and more of the Software Application development processes are becoming) growth. The monetary flows are only going to increasingly gains to the very few "thieves" that are pocketing money flows, that they really have no rights to. Now, based on present patents and legislation, the first investors of the first VR corporate entities have been able to eliminate most competitors because of the ability of AI programs that were designed based on specific algorithmic formulas to eliminate competition to extremely effectively accomplish the tasks that the AI programs were designed to do by specific work teams. It remains to be seen if a majority of other people are also able to recognize the real effects of these frameworks create and effectively control others' activities to create a vacuum and confirm their effective monopolization of anybody's prior and subsequent work efforts.
      
      If you are writing or working in teams, or even using just as I am right now by entering text onto this PS website, as a result of being beguiled into extensive use of systems like GOOGLE, MS, FB, and AMAZON, everything that we including you and me enter onto any website, or email, is effectively, and efficiently being stolen, letter by letter, character by character, as we engage at any level of the present "internet". This theft is creating a VACUUM of unbelievable emptiness in any understanding, and any context of LEARNING from searching for any word, any idea, or any concept. So that vacuum is being reflected in the present state of economic down turn nationally in various economies, not all.
      - Elizabeth Pula Aug 4, 2020
        
        Visualize a vacuum tube. The old-fashioned clear kind that used to be in old radios. You may consider a bubble as similar. However, a bubble is not really the same thing or device as a vacuum tube.
        
        That comparative analogy might start generating some thought waves for you. The serious idea is that the systems are not utilizing any of the transparent vacuum tubes in any correct way for the real world to function into new dimensions.
        
        When you step on a vacuum tube, what remains?
        
        P. Kamath Aug 4, 2020
        
        EP: I belong to a vacuum tube generation era! and one who has used Them in my designs. Mind you earliest giant computers like ENIAC that occupied ten times the size of a living room size , were built using VTubes. When you step on they EXPLODE. Today computers that can work a million times faster can be built on a thumb drive! That’s the speed of evolution. So your analogy neds a bit of tweeking😵😟. But you have good ideas!
        
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  - Prashant Kotak Aug 2, 2020
    
    EP, thankyou for your response. I don't have a problem with the regulation of information technologies at all par-se, indeed without regulation we will have chaos, with great inequalities a side effect to boot. However, that is different from believing governance can be successfully superimposed on technology, which in truth, I'm less than convinced of. I have yet to see any convincing proof that information technologies can in fact be regulated. Conversely, I can provide scenario after scenario, simple and complex, demonstrating tech's ungovernability. One tiny illustration is a decentralised example of how multiple arms of technology in tandem are conspiring to undermine the notion of Intellectual Property. Social media platforms are replete with 'influencers' who recommend to their followers, things like, for example, Apple knock-off earphones which are 'drop shipped', eventually delivered directly out of China. These are essentially products reverse engineered from the original to make copies, that vary in quality, from damn near indistinguishable, to poor. The 'influencers' are of course mere shills. The point is Apple, whose IP has been stolen are cut out of the chain. That Apple is not maimed by this is down to their size and inbuilt cachet - and doesn't detract from what is grand theft. And it is inevitable that even the likes of Apple will eventually be hurt by this. What I cannot for the life of me see, is any way to police/catch/prosecute the huge numbers involved in the supply chains in free nations, because of the sheer scale of it. As an aside, counters I have had people make to me that the west in the past stole big scale from China (eg Opium Wars), is indisputable, but cannot under any circumstances be used as justification for acts now - an eye for an eye mentality is not law but chaos.
    - Elizabeth Pula Aug 2, 2020
      
      Your comments are always quite good and relevant.
      
      You're right the "chaos" effect of myriads of communication channels is ungovernable. The focus needs to be the "organization" of the networks at permission levels, and cost levels of the architectural networks. Right now it is a jungle. The only reason any "messaging" is not lost is due to the fantastic sound waves, light waves, electricity and
      frequency ranges of all the independent "sound carriers" untouched by human hands, and presently experiencing mis-direction. So, thank God, everyone can talk.
      
      The Telecommunication networks need to be viewed as organized roads similar to the US Federal highway system. Another view from the micro level is Telecommunication networks to be reorganized to function indepedently but cooperatively as the human body's nervous, blood, and other systems. There needs to be defined boundaries geographically for the operational scope of certain specifically limited monopolies. To a certain extent the Chinese and EU have a better grasp of the organizational approaches that need to be regulated at critical points of access. The US has had the best overall modern approach to organizational networking systems. There needs to be more appropriate focus on re-organization and eliminating corruption on certain key levels. The IEFF has the best overall grasp of organizational approaches that need to happen. The focus on censorship of content is another mis-direction of narrative, and is NOT the critical area, it is ACCESS. ACCESS points will determine cost structuring, at a number of critical systemic levels.
      
      The Behemoths need a punch in the gut. That's what will be needed.
      The real infighting and turmoil has not even started yet. There are a lot of sharks swimming around in the dark. Young people are amazed looking down in the water thinking they are seeing the antics of gold fish.
      
      In all reality, the regulatory process probably has not been effective because it is really going to be such an overwhelming and complex task to establish proper boundaries, and regulations. The adjustments can not occur with the stroke of a magic wand, or a keystroke on one computer, at one node. It is an ongoing challenging process of concert efforts and willingness. Acceptable and tolerable goals rights now will need to be established. There aren't really any defined. The conscious struggle has only been a focus on personality conflicts at the lowest levels of mass awareness. Nielsen ratings are results only from a survey. Reality is not a ratings game played by a few contenders to confuse and amuse the mass audiences at selected levels, at prime time.
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