{"id":22382,"date":"2026-05-27T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22382"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:12:14","slug":"how-big-tech-became-the-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22382","title":{"rendered":"How Big Tech Became The &#8220;Bad Guys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some companies use regulations to their advantage. They beat companies that are obeying the spirit of the law, by finding a loophole that absolutely destroys the spirit of the law, but technically, can be argued to follow the rule of the law. Cheating companies have a competitive advantage and the nice guys finish last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This strategy is aided by weak regulators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes this is bad because the regulation fails to prevent the harm it was supposed to stop. Other times it is good because the regulation was preventing new and disruptive ideas from flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Big Tech Became The &quot;Bad Guys&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q37yxPUAC24?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some companies use regulations to their advantage. They beat companies that are obeying the spirit of the law, by finding a loophole that absolutely destroys the spirit of the law, but technically, can be argued to follow the rule of the law. Cheating companies have a competitive advantage and the nice guys finish last. <\/p>\n<p>This strategy is aided by weak regulators. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this is bad because the regulation fails to prevent the harm it was supposed to stop. Other times it is good because the regulation was preventing new and disruptive ideas from flourishing. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q37yxPUAC24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,217,165,236,551,1005],"class_list":["post-22382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-regulation","tag-regulations","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22383,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions\/22383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}