In an interview, Stoller suggested that big tech is bringing together conservatives’ anti-monopoly streak with progressives’ suspicion of big business and wealth inequality. But big tech, which spends millions of dollars on lobbying, would be a far tougher proposition. In 2019, as a partial government drags on and partisan divisions run deeper than ever, big tech seems be the one issue that Washington can agree on. Historian Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, said: “The difficulty here is that there are some quite different motivations behind going after big tech. Some commentators have likened data to oil, and big tech to Standard Oil, the colossus owned by John D Rockefeller that was eventually broken up by the supreme court in 1911.

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2019 06:00 UTC