Tag Archives: Antitrust

Too Centralized to Fail?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by N.S. Palmer

Google Cloud went down yesterday, and it took a big piece of the internet down with it. Large areas of the United States, Europe, and South America lost internet services until Google fixed the problem. But Google is just one … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Science, Society | Tagged Antitrust, Bank bailout, Competitive markets, Complex systems, Crash of 2008, DARPA, Decentralization, FTC, Giant corporations, Google, Internet, Market power, Outage, Single point of failure, Technology, Too big to fail | Leave a comment

A Retro Idea to Improve the Net

Posted on March 6, 2019 by N.S. Palmer

In 1949, the legendary American comedian Groucho Marx resigned from the Friars Club of Beverly Hills. His reason? “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” A lot of people are … Continue reading →