Scott Cleland

Our polarized Internet world has generated at least one area of extraordinary bipartisan consensus: 77 percent of Americans agree Google, Facebook, and Amazon have too much power.

What is the simple key to passing bipartisan net neutrality and online privacy legislation?

Americans want their right to privacy restored.

U.S. Internet policy politics has shifted.

Only three online intermediary platforms command bottleneck distribution control of ~90% of online demand and ~90% of offline supply.

On net neutrality, we have all been tricked by the masters of misdirection.

Three companies now have enormous power over our economy and society. Politicians on both sides should be worried.

In 2015, the FCC’s Title II Open Internet broadband order was predicated on a demonstrably false central competitive premise: that the Internet’s edge was competitive while the broadband Internet core was not competitive. The facts prove the opposite.

What’s quintessential illegal monopoly behavior?

If one considers the evidence, it is evident that U.S. antitrust enforcers have enabled the current “new normal” of online winner-take-all platforms.

The expected guilty EU antitrust verdict against Alphabet-Google’s flagship “general search service” for abusing its dominance, will be a tipping point for Alphabet-Google this summer.

Reportedly the EU will rule Google has abused its search dominance this summer, putting the growth and profitability of the ~30% European part of Alphabet-Google’s revenue base at risk.

John Oliver won’t have the same effect he had in 2014.