NYT echoes Natural News, says it's time to break up the Google monopoly http://ift.tt/2oAD0g9 (Natural News) Would it surprise you that Natural News and the ultra-liberal New York Times are on the same page, as it were? When in comes to the consolidation of power and influence in greedy tech industry corporations, that may be the case. Natural News founder Mike Adams wrote about a week ago that the Google monopoly should be broken up for the benefit of consumers, the competitive marketplace, and free information flow. A Times Op-Ed seems to agree with the Health Ranger about Google in general, suggesting that the government may need to regulate the giant search engine like a public utility given its gatekeeping sway over web traffic and e-commerce. “We are going to have to decide fairly soon whether Google, Facebook and Amazon are the kinds of natural monopolies that need to be regulated, or whether we allow the status quo to continue, pretending that unfettered monoliths don’t inflict damage on our privacy and democracy,” wrote Jonathan Taplin , director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Postponing the decision may mean that breaking up Google (with its 88 per
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