Mr. Hughes writes that Facebook’s ubiquity was a result of Mr. Zuckerberg’s drive to grow and the government’s unwillingness to do anything to stop it. “This means that every time Facebook messes up, we repeat an exhausting pattern: first outrage, then disappointment and, finally, resignation,” Mr. Hughes writes. But the statutes are still on the books and could be used to rein in even the biggest tech giants. We just seem to have forgotten about them,” Mr. Hughes writes. The Democratic senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has called explicitly for the breakup of tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2019 09:17 UTC