No one can deny that the big tech platforms have become essential, the default infrastructure of much economic activity. But being essential should not entail an unfettered power to extract wealth from everyone else.
This is hardly a new lesson. To operate smoothly, economies have long depended on essential platforms, be they city markets, Main Streets
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