We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

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We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why | Nick Srnicek
theguardian.com

With Google's recent monopoly status being a topic a discussion recently. This article from 2017 argues that we should nationalize these platforms in the age of platform capitalism. Ahead of its time, in fact the author predicted the downfall of Ello.

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Someone needs to learn world history before making proposals like this.

Someone should say what they're referring to before hitting enter and be done with their cryptic comment

Presumably, they are referring to literally every other time a government seized control of the media. This isn't exactly the same, but it's fairly close to some of what happened in the early stages of some of those cases.