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If Apple News was staffed entirely by algorithms rather than human editors, we'd still be raising these kinds of questions – as we would when any big technology company becomes a gatekeeper for news.
(Rockefeller received stock in all of them and became even wealthier). In the decades following the Standard Oil breakup, antitrust enforcement generally abided by a core principle: When a company grows so powerful that it becomes a gatekeeper, and uses that might to undermine competitors, then the government should intervene.
It said: "When a single entity achieves dominance and thereby becomes a gatekeeper, there is an inherent risk that it may have both the incentive and ability to place its own interests above consumers' interests in access to a broad and diverse range of content, services and viewpoints".
But it raised a good point about contemporary pop culture -- what happens when everyone becomes a gatekeeper of originality (or rather, when no one is)?
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