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In the Gilded Age, Americans loved and feared the railroad companies — and it can teach Big Tech a valuable lesson

Source: Business Insider

Tech company CEO Richard White compares current internet service providers and how to regulate them to railroad companies of the Gilded Age.

This entry was posted in An Age of Realism and tagged History, Technology on March 11, 2018 by Anita Hacker.

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