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Dear U.S. Government: Do Your Job to Stop Tech Monopolies

Dear U.S. Government: Do Your Job to Stop Tech Monopolies

5 years ago
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https://medium.com/@profgalloway/no-mercy-no-malice-2018s-most-innovative-firm-102282a5de30

Editor’s Note: No Mercy/No Malice is a column from Professor Scott Galloway, where he shares various reflections on business, tech, and life each week.

The U.K. Parliament released a trove of emails illuminating the inner workings of Facebook. I believe the navel-gazing around “what to do” about Zuck and Sheryl Sandberg has become ridiculous. Each day, a different media outlet calls me and asks, “What can Mark and Sheryl do?” Failing to put in place safeguards to ensure your business isn’t weaponized by a foreign government and then lying to the public and your board render a simple solution: they can be fired. However, we’ve now entered the pile-on phase, where everything the social media firm does is cast in a negative light.